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"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?"

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Los Angeles gets skewered here not for vanity alone, but for the way wellness can mutate into a kind of civic religion. Neeson’s joke lands because it takes something harmless - jogging - and exposes the moral surcharge that often comes with it in status-soaked places: if you optimize your body hard enough, you start to believe you’ve optimized your character. The punchline isn’t anti-exercise; it’s anti-righteousness.

The line is engineered around a familiar cultural irritation: the conversion of private discipline into public superiority. “They jog for two hours” isn’t just an image of health; it’s a caricature of leisure as virtue-signaling, an economy where time, access, and self-care become proof of worth. When Neeson says they “think they’re morally right,” he’s naming the slippery move from “I’m taking care of myself” to “I’m better than you.” That’s a particularly L.A. flavor of social sorting, where lifestyle becomes ideology and the body becomes a résumé.

And then he spikes it with “That’s when you want to choke people,” immediately softened by “you know?” The aggression is comic exaggeration, a pressure valve that invites the listener to confess: yes, I’ve felt that irrational rage at sanctimony. Coming from an actor whose persona often reads as blunt, masculine, and unpretentious, it plays like a working-class eye-roll at a city that can turn even cardio into a sermon.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Neeson, Liam. (2026, January 16). In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-los-angeles-its-like-they-jog-for-two-hours-a-92282/

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Neeson, Liam. "In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?" FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-los-angeles-its-like-they-jog-for-two-hours-a-92282/.

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"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?" FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-los-angeles-its-like-they-jog-for-two-hours-a-92282/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Liam Neeson (born June 7, 1952) is a Actor from Ireland.

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