The best Quotes from La La Land

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Jazz is conflict and it's compromise, and it's new every time. It's brand new every night. It's very, very exciting. And it's dying. It's dying on the vine. And the world says, "Let it die. It had its time." Well, not on my watch!

How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.

I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.

People love what other people are passionate about.

Mia: "I'm always gonna love you."
Sebastian: "I'm always gonna love you, too."

Here's to the ones who dream
Foolish as they may seem
Here's to the hearts that ache
Here's to the mess we make

Mia: "Should have been a lawyer."
Sebastian: "'Cause the world needs more lawyers?"

Sebastian: "I thought in this town it worked on a sort of 'one for you, one for me' basis type system. How about two for you, one for me?"
Sebastian: "How about all for you and none for me?"
Bill: "That's perfect, yes."
Sebastian: "Okay, a mutual decision then."
Bill: "Right, made by me."

Bill: "You're fired."
Sebastian: "It's Christmas!"
Bill: "Yeah, I see the decorations. Good luck in the New Year."

You could just write your own roles, you know, write something that's interesting as you are.

City of stars
Are you shining just for me?
City of stars
There's so much that I can't see
Who knows?
Is this the start of something wonderful and new?
Or one more dream that I cannot make true?

"You're fired."
Sebastian: "That's what you're saying, but it's not what you mean"

Oh, if we keep on dancing
Take our rhythm to new heights
Feel the heat of passion, baby
Light up the night

I think you should call it "Seb's" because no one will come to a place called "Chicken on a Stick".

Cause all of me loves all of you,
love your curves and all your edges,
all your perfect imperfections.
Give your all to me, I'll give my all to you,
you're my end and my beginning,
even when I lose, I'm winning.

Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.

There's something messed up with my brain.

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

It can take a lifetime to discover Jazz, but only an instant to fall in love with it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

It may seem as the hardest thing in the world, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

Will Traynor: "Will you stay?"
Lou Clark: "For as long as you want me to."

There's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived your life at all.