Los Angeles Quotes

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

"I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years"

"If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic"

Warren Rudman, Politician

"I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way"

Christine McVie, Musician

"Los Angeles has always been on the table with us"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me"

Wavy Gravy, Activist

"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 love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"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

"Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"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?"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me"

James Denton, Actor

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

Ice Cube, Musician

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

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"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

"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"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

"If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality"

Sam Mendes, Director

"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

"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it"

Miranda Richardson, Actress

"Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles"

Rona Barrett, Journalist

"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me"

Julie Delpy, Actress

"I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films"

John Hurt, Actor

"I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up"

Dennis Wilson, Musician

"There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"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

"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

"My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles"

Dennis Banks, Educator

"I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992"

Anna Nicole Smith, Model

"The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

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