Los Angeles Quotes

"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

"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 do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho"

John Hawkes, Actor

"I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it"

Coolio, Musician

"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'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco"

Mick Ralphs, Musician

"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

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

Jack Herer, Activist

"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business"

Ville Valo, Musician

"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

"Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false"

Paul Crouch, Clergyman

"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

"Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"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

"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack"

Russell Crowe, 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

"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

"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

"Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"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

"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

"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

"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

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