All Quotes

L.A. can be intense, but the second you get over the hill into Calabasas, your stress level immediately drops because it's so peaceful and safe. Sometimes I really miss it.
‐‐ Justin Berfield

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.
‐‐ Matt Walsh

L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.
‐‐ Jessica Lucas

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
‐‐ Amy Lee

L.A. fashion is like lip injections. That confuses me. That's become not just a thing. It's become fashion, part of your outfit. But hey, to each his own.
‐‐ Kenny Wormald

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
‐‐ Lee Child

L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
‐‐ Paige Craig

L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

L.A. has brought so many opportunities and allowed me to reach the level of success I've been blessed to achieve thus far. L.A. can definitely open a lot of doors for anyone focused on achieving their passion and dreams.
‐‐ Drew Sidora

L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis, but no-one seems to sell them over here.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

L.A. I could live without.
‐‐ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
‐‐ Raf Simons

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.
‐‐ Hope Solo

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
‐‐ Zach Galligan

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.
‐‐ Dave Gahan

L.A. is an intense industry town, and there's a side of it that's superficial, but I surround myself with the kind of people who don't let me get sucked into that.
‐‐ Jessica Marais

L.A. is big, although Hollywood's not as glamorous as I thought; it's kind of grungy.
‐‐ Ben Hardy

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
‐‐ Kelly Macdonald

L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.
‐‐ Michael B. Jordan

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.
‐‐ Sofia Vergara

L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.
‐‐ Tamsin Egerton

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
‐‐ Nick Cave

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
‐‐ Yara Shahidi

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
‐‐ Mamie Gummer

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.
‐‐ Billy Eckstine

L.A. is my American city.
‐‐ Tom Ford

L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
‐‐ Sam Claflin

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.
‐‐ Steve Martin

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.
‐‐ Verne Troyer

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
‐‐ Mike Mills

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.
‐‐ Dylan Walsh

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

L.A. is such a big city, and there's so much going on. I mean, you know you're in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.
‐‐ Cassie Steele

L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.
‐‐ Austin Nichols

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

L.A. is such an exotic city to me, and it is just a big bubble. If you accept the bubble and accept how isolated it is. It can be a very creative place, and I find it easy to focus.
‐‐ Erik Hassle

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
‐‐ Louis Theroux

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
‐‐ Nicolas Berggruen

L.A. is wonderful. They have something called sleep dentistry. You just go there, and they put you to sleep and go, 'Drrrrrr,' and by the time you wake up a few hours later, you have a whole new set of teeth. I mean, whatever you want them to do.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon