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"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

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

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

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

Ice T, 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

"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 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 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

"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

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

Beth Henley, Playwright

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

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"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

"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

"We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

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

Tom Hanks, 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

"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 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

"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles"

Ice Cube, Musician

"Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles"

Jodie Foster, Actress

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

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"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

"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

"So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home"

Reba McEntire, 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

"There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes"

Dick Wolf, Producer

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

Elton John, Musician

"The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem"

Alex Cox, Director

"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

"It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"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

"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"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