The best Quotes by Ry Cooder

Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something.

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.

American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.

I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.

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

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

Los Angeles

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

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 2 Episode 2

Los Angeles

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.

Catherine O'Hara

Los Angeles

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

Lucifer Morningstar in Lucifer - Season 1 Episode 3

Los Angeles

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.

Craig Kilborn

Los Angeles

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

Los Angeles

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Ang Lee

Los Angeles Taiwan

You're lucky we're not in Los Angeles, because Angelinos can smell BS a mile away.

Melinda Monroe in Virgin River - Season 1 Episode 1

Los Angeles

I'm from the Compton slums, and that's how the West ride
I'm from the city where two of the best died

The Game - The City, Album: The R.E.D. Album

The Notorious B.I.G.Eazy-E Los Angeles

I moved to Los Angeles for two reasons. One is to run away from a boy. Two is to chase a boy.

Kelly Mi Li in Bling Empire

Los Angeles

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

Matthew Goode

Los Angeles

I'm rich, I'm miserable - I'm pretty average for this town.

Michael De Santa in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - V

Los Angeles

Riggs: "You want me to drive?"
Murtaugh: "No, you're supposed to be suicidal, remember? I'll drive."
Riggs: "Anybody who drives around in this town IS suicidal."

Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon

Los Angeles

Miss Carter, you have no idea how foreign Los Angeles will seem to a civilized person such as yourself. They eat avocados... with everything!

Edwin Jarvis in Agent Carter - Season 2 Episode 1

Los Angeles

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.

Rumor Has It...

Los Angeles

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

Rush Limbaugh

Los Angeles

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

Glenn Frey

Los Angeles California

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

Natalie in Charlie's Angels

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.

Christina Grimmie

Los Angeles New Jersey

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

Brad Pitt

Los Angeles

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.

Liev Schreiber

Los Angeles

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.

Jimmy Fallon

New York City Los Angeles

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.

Stephen Graham Jones

Los Angeles Texas

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

Matt Kemp

Los Angeles

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

Tommy Lasorda

Los Angeles Los Angeles Dodgers

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Los Angeles

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?

Bobby Lee

Beauty Los Angeles

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."

Billy Boyd

Los Angeles Scotland Glasgow

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

Billy Connolly

Los Angeles

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

Ice-T

Los Angeles

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

Steven Morrissey

Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

Norman Mailer

Los Angeles Plastic

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Los Angeles

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

Justin Halpern

Los Angeles San Diego

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

Robert De Niro

Los Angeles

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

Daisy Ridley

Los Angeles London

You know what gives women in L.A. the right to park their car in disability parking spots? A cups.

Angelina Jolie

Los Angeles

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

David Letterman

Los Angeles

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.

Ice Cube

Los Angeles

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Denzel Washington

Los Angeles

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

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