Los Angeles Quotes: Capturing the Essence of the City of Angels

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"

"The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters"

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before"

Elton John, Musician

"I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days"

W. Richard Stevens, Scientist

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination"

Henry Miller, Writer

"For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles"

Dan Quisenberry, Athlete

"I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

"Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls"

Ice T, Musician

"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone"

Esther Williams, Actress

"We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil"

Ted Danson, Actor

"I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours"

Julie Benz, Actress

"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s"

Robert Towne, Actor

"So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica"

Danny Glover, Actor

"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles"

Glenn Frey, Musician

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