The best Quotes about Los Angeles (L.A.) and Hollywood

There's an old saying: 'Nobody comes from Los Angeles. Everybody comes to Los Angeles'. But if you do come from Los Angeles, then chances are you come from Pasadena.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

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.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Do you know how hard it is to find a quality man in Los Angeles?

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

I think Los Angeles is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.

L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm... average?

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Los Angeles is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.