Best 222 quotes in «los angeles quotes» category

When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the big angry city hanging over the shoulder of the hills through which the boulevard had been cut. Far off the banshee wail of police or fire sirens rose and fell, never for very long completely silent. Twenty four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes, people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick; bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care. I finished the drink and went to bed.

As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants, is what they call it. Or, as Native Americans call it, the good ol' days.

When you got no wheels you're no place in L. A.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

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

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

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

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

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

Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

When I lived in Los Angeles I never savored warm nights. You don't savor things that last forever.

you chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with!

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.

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

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.

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.

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

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

George Clooney and Fabio apparently got into a scuffle at a restaurant in Los Angeles over the weekend. George thought the women with Fabio were taking pictures of him. How embarrassed is George Clooney to be in a fight with Fabio? Who is he going to call out next, Lorenzo Lamas?

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

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.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.

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

I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.

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.

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

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

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

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

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

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

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

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.

I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

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