Los Angeles Quotes - Page 7

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Nice, Character, Cartoon

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

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• I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

  Carey Mulligan

  New York, Thinking, London

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• I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

  Sara Gilbert

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

  John Hurt

  Order, Film, Finance

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• When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

  Jessica Chastain

  Thinking, Firsts, Moved

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• I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Moving, Tired, Years

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

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• I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.

  Vera Farmiga

  Country, Barbie, Noses

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

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• I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

  Corey Haim

  Best Place, 80s

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

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• If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

  Werner Herzog

  Museums, Venice, Florence

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• I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Growing Up, Dad, Years

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

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• I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

  Lily Collins

  People, Different, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

  America Ferrera

  Perfect, Speak, Latina

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• I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.

  Xzibit

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

  Jason Behr

  Cities, People, Colorado

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• The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Directors, Firsts, Asks

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• Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

  Bill Rancic

  Country, Nice, Cities

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• I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Play, Theatre, Experience

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• I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

  Aidan Quinn

  Jobs, Cities, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

  James Denton

  Men, Stories, Saws

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Character, Thinking, Guy

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• At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor. She said, 'Go for it.' When my dad retired from the military, we moved to Los Angeles, and it all kicked off.

  Khleo

  Mom, Dad, Military

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• My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Men

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• The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin.

  Luke Wilson

  Summer, Soccer, Country

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• In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Distance, Messages

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• I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

  Danielle Panabaker

  College, Graduates, Areas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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