Los Angeles Quotes - Page 3

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  Danica McKellar

  Couple, Years, Acting

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• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Growing Up, Mean

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• There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  New York, Gluten, Stuff

  "Zooey Deschanel's Holiday Plans Involve Bar Cookies and Velvet Frocks". Interview with Hugh Garvey, www.bonappetit.com. November 16, 2011.

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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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• Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint which changes are linked to place. I believe California has made me more polite. I get a little surprised when I rediscover how direct and rude Norwegians can be.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Believe, Moving, Rude

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• We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  New York, People, Priorities

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

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• In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

  Ashley Greene

  Party, Years, Focus

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• When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

  Nick Offerman

  Cutting, Yards, Cabins

  "Nick Offerman Of ‘Parks And Recreation’ On Ron Swanson, The Cubs And, Duh, Facial Hair". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

  Diablo Cody

  School, Son, House

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• When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Jobs, School, Sweat

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• The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Inspirational, Kings, Loser

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• You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

  Bernie Mac

  Home, Years, Games

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• So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

  Danny McBride

  School, Gone, Slugs

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

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• I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Running, Character, Play

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• So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.

  Reba McEntire

  Home, Ideas, Directors

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Couple, Home, Night

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• There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

  Tom Hanks

  Periods, Ifs, Loses

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• I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

  David Hasselhoff

  Snow, Chicago, Grew Up

  "David Hasselhoff, ‘The Christmas Consultant’ Star, Reminisces About Childhood Holidays". Interview with Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Diversity, House

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• If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

  Stephen Colbert

  Kids, Ifs, Free Time

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• Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.

  Kyle Chandler

  Moving, Littles

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

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• Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

  Emily Mortimer

  Ends, Parlor, Universe

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• Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Acceptance, Thinking, Attachment

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

  Betty White

  Zoos, Book, Animal

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

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• My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Spiritual, Religious, Cousin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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