Los Angeles Quotes - Page 26

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

  Roseanne Barr

  Done, Firsts, First Time

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• I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Jobs, Age, Television

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

  Jeff Daniels

  Jobs, Ideas, Actors

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

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• All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

  Jeremy Piven

  Pavement, Done, Early 20s

  "If there's one thing I'm prepared for, it's rejection". Interview with Andrew Gumbel, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2009.

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• Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Cities, Special

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• I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Wells

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• The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.

  Eric Dickerson

  Believe, Thinking, Perfect

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• I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

  Ice Cube

  Cities, World, Found

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.

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• My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Mom, Father, Cuba

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• Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

  Julie Benz

  Directors, Actors, Agents

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• A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

  Alison Brie

  Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Italian, World

  Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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• My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

  Micky Dolenz

  Mom, Father, Play

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• I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Cities, Two, Car

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

  Ree Drummond

  College, Black, Pumps

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• Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

  Michael Connelly

  Memories, Writing, Office

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• Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Couple, Men, Keys

  "Coming into Los Angeles" (song) (1969)

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• I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

  America Ferrera

  Growing Up, Mean, Mitzvah

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.

  Sutton Foster

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it.

  Connie Britton

  Coffee, Home, Son

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

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• I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Girl, Boys, Years

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

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• 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.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

  Maggie Grace

  Beach, Hawaii, Garments

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• There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.

  Paget Brewster

  Tv Shows, People, Want

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• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  Naveen Andrews

  Home, Honestly, I Can

  "I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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