Quotes About California

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.

But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a 'Kids on Camera' class up in the Bay Area. That was good for just getting me excited in acting and everything. Then once I started working down L.A., I just stuck to my acting coach, and she helps me prepare with auditions and that sort of thing.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications easier.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.

I am a huge Sublime fan, and I think their music immediately puts you in SoCal when you listen to it.

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

I was actually born in Sacramento, in Rocklin, which is a suburb of Sacramento. I lived there for the first 8 years of my life.

I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.

This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

The characteristics of the region as an art center — geographically remote, overly conscious of regional identity, and desiring not to be another commonsense Midwest or an appendage of New York or California culture — predisposed local artists to domination by the first individual personalities to manifest both independence and exoticism.