Los Angeles Quotes - Page 31

• When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Struggle, Years, Ideas

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• When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

  Ed Helms

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

  Michele Lee

  Father, Artist, Makeup

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• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Wonder, Lost, Found

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• Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cities, Joy, Conversation

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.

  Laurence Fox

  Brother, Holiday, Years

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• I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

  Michael Trevino

  Writing, Thinking, East

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Tomatoes, Pickles, Cheeseburger

  "Zoë Kravitz On Adrenaline, Comfort Food And Her Dad’s Best Advice", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2013.

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• I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

  Ashley Jensen

  Hollywood, Addresses, Giggle

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• I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!

  Ashley Jensen

  Distance, Way, Walks

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• The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

  Ice Cube

  Home, People, Black

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• I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

  Ice Cube

  Father, House, Grew

  "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.

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

  Taylor Schilling

  Elbows, Armpits, Knows

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• 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.

  Justin Kirk

  Jobs, Get Up, Couches

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• President Bush was in Los Angeles yesterday where he announced his new campaign theme - “Safer, Stronger, and Tested.” Isn't that a condom ad?

  Jay Leno

  Yesterday, President, Stronger

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• I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

  Keith Coogan

  Years, Motorcycle, Sailor

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• In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Magazines, Want, Sometimes

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• I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!

  Gillian Jacobs

  Law, Broken, Abiding

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• I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

  Jenna Fischer

  Jobs, Crazy, Psychics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

  Paula Fox

  Jobs, Dresses, Firsts

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• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Accents, Whole, Rehearsing

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

  Cliff Martinez

  Bird, Owl, Musician

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• To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

  Michael Connelly

  Change, Memories, Book

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• I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Zero, Reading, Believe

  "Novelist Bret Easton Ellis". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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