Los Angeles Quotes

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.

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

Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

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

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

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

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

If you ever thought you were ugly, Los Angeles is the place to come and find out you were right.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

I live in a very dangerous part of Los Angeles? it's called Los Angeles.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

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.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

I think... I love Los Angeles. I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

I become friends with people in each city who can show me around. Like if someone came to Los Angeles they wouldn't really know where to go, so they'd have to call me up and then I'd show them around.

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

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.

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

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.

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

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.

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.

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

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

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.