Los Angeles Quotes - Page 15

• I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

  Sebastian Bach

  New York, Mean, Jail

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

  Rue McClanahan

  Dog, Cat, Eight

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.

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• Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Cities, Seven, Suburbs

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• 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

  Thank You, Reality, Thinking

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview With Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Cities, Names

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

  Larry Niven

  Reading, Men, Black

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• 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

  Running, Distance, Messages

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• The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin.

  Luke Wilson

  Summer, Soccer, Country

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• 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

  Growing Up, Dad, Years

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

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• I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

  Lily Collins

  People, Different, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  America Ferrera

  Perfect, Speak, Latina

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• I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.

  Xzibit

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

  Jason Behr

  Cities, People, Colorado

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• The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Directors, Firsts, Asks

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• Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

  Bill Rancic

  Country, Nice, Cities

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• I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Play, Theatre, Experience

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• I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

  Aidan Quinn

  Jobs, Cities, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Men, Stories, Saws

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Character, Thinking, Guy

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• At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor. She said, 'Go for it.' When my dad retired from the military, we moved to Los Angeles, and it all kicked off.

  Khleo

  Mom, Dad, Military

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• My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Men

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• 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.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Best Friend, Home, Gay

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• If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

  Danny Glover

  Kids, Racism, Environmental

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

  Mae West

  Home, Sassy, Police

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• I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

  Ryan Tedder

  Morning, Cities, Wake Up

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