Los Angeles Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Lisa See

  Whole Life, Knows, Movie Business

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• Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.

  Wanda Coleman

  Perfect, Childhood, World

  Wanda Coleman (2005). “The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors”, p.7, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

  Neve Campbell

  New York, Inspire, Way

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

  Corey Haim

  Best Place, 80s

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

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• Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  New York, Sibling, Kids

  "Get To Know Giada". The TIME Interview, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

  Jessica Chastain

  Thinking, Firsts, Moved

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

  John Scalzi

  Vision, Want, Vans

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• I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Light, Car, Steps

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Aug 24, 2012

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• I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

  John Hurt

  Order, Film, Finance

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• Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

  Joseph Barbera

  Disappointment, California, Despair

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.

  Vera Farmiga

  Country, Barbie, Noses

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

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• I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Moving, Tired, Years

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

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• Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

  Dori Berinstein

  Growing Up, Taken, Ucla

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...

  Philip French

  Order, Two, Challenges

  "The Four Feathers" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

  H. L. Mencken

  Nineteen, Metropolis, Suburbs

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• I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

  Steve Antin

  New York, Sunset, Thinking

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

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• Honestly, in the beginning, it was really tough. Coming from Cincinnati, Ohio, I was just a girl who had a dream, which was to go to Los Angeles, have a career and to be able to support my family. To have a dream like that and, you know, you're not ready.

  Carmen Electra

  Girl, Dream, Cincinnati Ohio

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• Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. People in Nebraska aren't watching things on the computer, they're watching television. Why aren't we programming things for them? We only program things that appeal to New York and Los Angeles and in many ways spit on the rest of the country.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Country, New York, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kings, Character, Compassion

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• I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

  Delphine Arnault

  Art, New York, Passion

  "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

  Richard Cabral

  Actors, West Coast, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You can become an alcoholic working in an office in Los Angeles. It's very easy to say because I do this shameful job I take drugs or drink, but the real reason prostitutes take drugs and drink is because prostitution is a party area. It's not about desperation, it's the surroundings.

  Michael Glawogger

  Jobs, Real, Party

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

  Mario Testino

  People, Individuality, Want

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• Most indie shoots, or any kind of film shooting, even TV, it's out of Los Angeles, unfortunately. I wish that would change, that people could work where their families are, across the board - crew, cast. I wish we could all stay here.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  People, Wish, Boards

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Richard Jeni

  Ugly, Ifs

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