"I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days"
About this Quote
The subtext is affectionate skepticism. Reinvention sounds aspirational until you notice what it implies: a place so committed to becoming “new” that it can’t sit still long enough to be fully known. LA is the capital of the rewrite - careers, faces, neighborhoods, even personal histories. In a city built on entertainment, “reinventing yourself” is practically civic religion, and Connolly tweaks that mantra by making it absurdly frequent, like a software update you didn’t ask for.
Context matters: Connolly comes from Glasgow, a city with a heavier relationship to permanence, class, and lineage. From that vantage, LA’s fluidity reads as exhilarating and slightly ridiculous, a place where identity is less biography than branding. The joke works because it flatters LA’s glamour while puncturing its instability: a love letter written in the ink of disbelief.
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| Topic | Reinvention |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Connolly, Billy. (2026, January 17). I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-los-angeles-it-reinvents-itself-every-two-30174/
Chicago Style
Connolly, Billy. "I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-los-angeles-it-reinvents-itself-every-two-30174/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-los-angeles-it-reinvents-itself-every-two-30174/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.




