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Love Quote by Billy Connolly

"I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days"

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Los Angeles isn’t a city here; it’s a running gag with a pulse. Billy Connolly’s line lands because it treats LA’s defining trait - relentless self-mythologizing - as both wonder and warning. “I love Los Angeles” opens like a tourist postcard, then the punchline snaps it into something more knowing: “It reinvents itself every two days.” Not years, not seasons. Two days. The exaggeration is the point. Connolly, a comic who trades in shrewd observational speed, uses the hyperbole to mimic the city’s own tempo: the churn of trends, the constant construction, the rotating cast of identities.

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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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/

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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.

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Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly (born November 24, 1942) is a Comedian from Scotland.

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