Los Angeles Quotes

"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

"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us"

Marvin Davis, Businessman

"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"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

"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered"

Jordana Brewster, Actress

"I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down"

Jeffrey Wright, Actor

"When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool"

Luke Wilson, Actor

"Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds"

Jason Biggs, Actor

"I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets"

Amy Weber, Actress

"I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

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

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper"

Gary Webb, Journalist

"I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles"

Swoosie Kurtz, Actress

"I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform"

Emanuel Ax, Musician

"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day"

Will Estes, Actor

"Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year"

Renny Harlin, Director

"We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles"

Stephen Hopkins

"I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago"

Bryce Dallas Howard, Actress

"I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles"

Sara Gilbert, Actress

"When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks"

Melanie Chisholm, Musician

"We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove"

Lew Wasserman, Producer

"Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles"

Richard Linklater, Director

"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles"

Emma Stone, Actress

"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

"My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me"

Forest Whitaker, Actor

"When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy"

John Glover, Actor

"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

"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles"

Randy West, Entertainer

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