Los Angeles Quotes - Page 30

• Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!

  Megan Lee

  Mom, Passion, Acting

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". GLITTER interview, glittermagrocks.com.

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• If you ever thought you were ugly, Los Angeles is the place to come and find out you were right.

  Richard Jeni

  Ugly, Ifs

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• You can't smoke in a restaurant in Los Angeles, which is mildly ironic, when you consider the fact that you can't breathe outside a restaurant in Los Angeles.

  Greg Proops

  Ironic, Facts, Breathe

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• I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.

  Bob Hope

  Air, Don't Trust, I Can

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• Honestly, in the beginning, it was really tough. Coming from Cincinnati, Ohio, I was just a girl who had a dream, which was to go to Los Angeles, have a career and to be able to support my family. To have a dream like that and, you know, you're not ready.

  Carmen Electra

  Girl, Dream, Cincinnati Ohio

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• I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

  Steve Antin

  New York, Sunset, Thinking

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

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• Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

  H. L. Mencken

  Nineteen, Metropolis, Suburbs

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• In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...

  Philip French

  Order, Two, Challenges

  "The Four Feathers" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

  Eric Garcetti

  Thinking, Cities, Rivers

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• Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.

  Terence McKenna

  Views, Different, Answers

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• Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

  Nick Tosches

  People, Spirit, Beast

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• Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Cities, People, Important

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• The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Moving, Talking

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• I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

  Louis Armstrong

  Stars, Real, Night

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• Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.

  Owen Wilson

  Way, Great Friend, Scene

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

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• Here in Los Angeles, school's out for summer. For thousands of school kids, this is the first week of summer vacation. And for thousands of parents, it's the first week of hell.

  Craig Ferguson

  Summer, School, Kids

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• There are plans for a new high-speed train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It will make the trip time 30 minutes. People in L.A. are like, Yes! And people in San Francisco are like, Yeah, sure, great. We look forward to seeing you.

  Craig Ferguson

  San Francisco, People, Looks

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• George Clooney and Fabio apparently got into a scuffle at a restaurant in Los Angeles over the weekend. George thought the women with Fabio were taking pictures of him. How embarrassed is George Clooney to be in a fight with Fabio? Who is he going to call out next, Lorenzo Lamas?

  Chelsea Handler

  Fighting, Weekend, Next

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• I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting. 
  (on the Los Angeles Galaxy)

  Cobi Jones

  Team, Fighting, Usa

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• This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. 
  (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

  Cobi Jones

  Years, Usa, Perfection

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• The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Night, Different, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many of the trans women who are in our world are also in Caitlyn's Jenner world. And yes I've definitely spoken to her multiple times, talked to her, socialized with her. It's a small community when all is said and done, the trans community in Los Angeles. So everybody really knows each other and everybody's in contact.

  Jill Soloway

  Our World, Community, Done

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, Cutting, Police

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• Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

  Chris Tucker

  Opportunity, Acting, Georgia

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• So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man!

  Christopher Titus

  Brother, Mean, Past

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

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