Los Angeles Quotes - Page 11

• When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. 'Not so much,' Jack told me. 'You're not going to miss me?' I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, 'Love means you can never be apart.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Son, Missing

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• I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Britain, Customs

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• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  New York, Party, Men

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• I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Cousin, Memories

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

  Corin Nemec

  Book, Reading, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Nice, Character, Cartoon

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Jobs, School, Sweat

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• Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.

  Kyle Chandler

  Moving, Littles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  Adam Carolla

  Real, Golf, Gay

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• I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Might, Paparazzi

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• 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

  Matter, Towns, Disadvantages

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• When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

  Nick Offerman

  Cutting, Yards, Cabins

  "Nick Offerman Of ‘Parks And Recreation’ On Ron Swanson, The Cubs And, Duh, Facial Hair". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• 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

  New York, Believe, Boston

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• I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

  Carey Mulligan

  New York, Thinking, London

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• 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

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

  Jello Biafra

  Guy, Doe, Band

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002". Interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favorite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

  Nicholas Lea

  Eight, Years, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'

  Zach Galifianakis

  Stars, Drinking, Night

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• 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

  Fun, Mean, Rocks

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• My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

  Martin Lel

  Running, Cousin, Champion

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• 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.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, Retarded, Function

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.

  William L. Shirer

  New York, War, Home

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• I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Girlfriend, Heart, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Airplane, Army

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