Love Quote by DeForest Kelley

"I had fallen in love with California" lands like a confession you can say with a shrug and still mean with your whole life. Coming from DeForest Kelley, an actor whose most iconic role was defined by dry skepticism and gruff restraint, the line is quietly revealing: the hard-edged professional admitting he got softened by a place.

The phrasing matters. "Had fallen" suggests it happened almost against his will, like gravity. This isn’t "I chose California" or "I moved there". It’s the language of being overtaken, seduced, maybe even ambushed by weather, space, possibility. California becomes less a state than a mood: light, open horizons, the promise that reinvention isn’t a betrayal of the past but an upgrade.

Context does a lot of the work here. For mid-century actors, California wasn’t just scenery; it was the factory floor of American mythmaking. Loving California can signal professional gratitude (this is where careers become legible), but it also carries a whiff of complicity: you fall for the dream even when you know it’s a set. That tension is the subtext - a working actor recognizing how thoroughly a place can script you back.

There’s also something generational in it. For someone born in 1920, California represented a postwar forward gear: cars, suburbs, studios, sun. The line compresses all that into a single romantic beat, making a personal feeling do the job of cultural history.