Explore Quotes on Los Angeles

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.