Top 70 Most Famous Quotes About Los Angeles (LOVE)

Top 10 Most Famous Quotes About Los Angeles (BEST)

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”
Jack Kerouac

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. - Emily Mortimer — Los Angeles is like a **beauty** parlor at the end of the universe. – Emily Mortimer

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. - Frank Lloyd Wright — Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. – **Frank Lloyd Wright**

In Los Angeles, you can have the city life and feel like you’re on holiday at the same time. - Isabel Marant — In Los Angeles, you can have the city life and feel like you’re on **holiday** at the same time. – Isabel Marant

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. - Andy Warhol — I **love** Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. – Andy Warhol

“People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn’t do anywhere else.”
Tom Bradley

Los Angeles is the Great Gatsby of American cities. - Kevin Starr — Los Angeles is the Great Gatsby of American cities. – Kevin Starr

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star. - Denzel Washington — In Los Angeles, everyone is a star. – **Denzel Washington**

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. - Jennifer Love Hewitt — When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first **time** that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. – Jennifer Love Hewitt

It's like paradise with a lobotomy. - Neil Simon — It’s like paradise with a lobotomy. – Neil Simon

18 Thought-Provoking Quotes About Los Angeles

“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers’ bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.”
Michael Connelly

The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. - Rick Riordan — The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. – Rick Riordan

It is redundant to die in Los Angeles. - Truman Capote — It is redundant to die in Los Angeles. – **Truman Capote**

“So I live in Los Angeles, and it’s kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.”
George Carlin

You’re not done with L.A. until L.A. is done with you. - Philip Elliott — You’re not done with L.A. until L.A. is done with you. – Philip Elliott

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. - Dave Folley — The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. – Dave Folley

“People don’t live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.”
Marianne Williamson

Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city. - Dorothy Parker — Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city. – **Dorothy Parker**

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination. - Henry Miller — Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the **future** more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble **imagination**. – Henry Miller

The Twentieth Century is made in Los Angeles. The stars amass and suffer its novelties. - David Rowbotham — The Twentieth Century is made in Los Angeles. The stars amass and suffer its novelties. – David Rowbotham

The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself. - Joan Didion — The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself. – Joan Didion

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities. - Ry Cooder — No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities. – Ry Cooder

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they’re going to be famous, just like that. - Alison Brie — A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they’re going to be famous, just like that. – Alison Brie

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. - Ice T. — Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. – Ice T.

See, that’s the thing about L.A.— When you’ve mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that’s when you know. - Kris Kidd — See, that’s the thing about L.A.— When you’ve mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that’s when you know. – Kris Kidd

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them. - Ellie Kemper — In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest **hope** that people will do nothing but stare at them. – Ellie Kemper

The great Nietzsche told us to live dangerously. In Los Angeles there is no alternative. - Robert Winter and David Gebhard — The great Nietzsche told us to live dangerously. In Los Angeles there is no alternative. – Robert Winter and David Gebhard

In Los Angeles you are conscious only of the present tense; there is no flavor of the past, no feeling for the future. - Kate Bell — In Los Angeles you are conscious only of the present tense; there is no flavor of the past, no feeling for the future. – Kate Bell

4 Quotes About Los Angeles that Will Inspire You To Travel the City of Angels

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!”
John Fante

All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be. - John Gregory Dunne — All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be. – John Gregory Dunne

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it. - Miranda Richardson — You can have a **laugh** in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your **attitude** towards it. – Miranda Richardson

I wouldn’t leave L.A. if the whole place tipped over into the ocean. - Eve Babitz — I wouldn’t leave L.A. if the whole place tipped over into the ocean. – Eve Babitz

8 Quotes About Los Angeles That Will Introduce You To Its Culture

“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveler of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth.”
Christopher Isherwood

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreading of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. - Warren Ellis — Los Angeles had no **culture** of its own, just a large collection of misreading of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. – Warren Ellis

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. - David Letterman — Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds **change** color and fall from the trees. – David Letterman

“Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically — any way you want to look at it — everybody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.”
Michael Connelly

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. - Barbara Kruger — If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture. – Barbara Kruger

Darling, in LA, you decide who you are. Every neighborhood has its own culture and population. Once you find the right one for you, you’re home. Los Angeles is a way of life. - Cara Dee — Darling, in LA, you decide who you are. Every neighborhood has its own culture and population. Once you find the right one for you, you’re home. Los Angeles is a way of life. – Cara Dee

“The city has a reputation for constant sunshine and warmth, but once the sun is down at night, LA remembers it’s secretly a desert under its newer identity. The cool night air doesn’t care what midday was like.”
Amy Spalding

“Los Angeles is the City of Dreams, the City of Angels, a city blessed and cursed with a glorious dream and façade of hopes — glitter sprinkled on top if its sprawling expanse. It is a city without a center, a city with a rich and fabled past often bestowed with nostalgic memories not entirely based on fact; an erasure of memory.”
Gloria Álvarez

9 Funny Quotes About Los Angeles

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. - Nicholas Cage — I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. – Nicholas Cage

Perhaps there is no life after death, there’s just Los Angeles. - Richard Anderson — Perhaps there is no life after death, there’s just Los Angeles. – Richard Anderson

If New York is the city that never sleeps, then Los Angeles is the city that’s always passed out on the couch. - Paul Beatty — If New York is the city that never **sleeps**, then Los Angeles is the city that’s always passed out on the couch. – Paul Beatty

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay. - James Scott Bell — Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay. – James Scott Bell

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. - Glenn Frey — 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 makes the rest of California seem authentic. - Jonathan Culler — Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic. – Jonathan Culler

In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings. - Delia Ephron — In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings. – Delia Ephron

Los Angeles, you’ve got to be more than the sum of your hats. - Dan Johnson — Los Angeles, you’ve got to be more than the sum of your hats. – Dan Johnson

You know, you’re really nobody in LA unless you live in a house with a really big door. - Steve Martin — You know, you’re really nobody in LA unless you live in a house with a really big door. – Steve Martin

3 Quotes About Los Angeles and Driving

“A good part of any day in Los Angeles is spent driving, alone, through streets devoid of meaning to the driver, which is one reason the place exhilarates some people, and floods others with an amorphous unease.”
Joan Didion

Malibu With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE. - Jennifer Harrison — Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE. – Jennifer Harrison

With their cars, Angelenos go places, they travel infinite numbers of kilometers in a world that continuously remains Los Angeles. - Cees Nooteboom — With their cars, Angelenos go places, they travel infinite numbers of kilometers in a world that continuously remains Los Angeles. – Cees Nooteboom

18 Quotes About Los Angeles That Will Make You Think

“Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.”
George Carlin

The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A. - Jack Kerouac — The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A. – Jack Kerouac

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America it's like half an hour on the plane. - Craig Ferguson — I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America it’s like half an hour on the plane. – Craig Ferguson

“It’s [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they’ll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren’t even young and beautiful now.”
Christopher Hitchens

Pick your enemies carefully, or you'll never make it in Los Angeles. - Rona Barrett — Pick your enemies carefully, or you’ll never make it in Los Angeles. – Rona Barrett

In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people. - Kris Kidd — In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people. – Kris Kidd

“When its 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”
Neil Simon

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. - Carrie Fisher — You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. – **Carrie Fisher**

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. - Billy Connolly — I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. – Billy Connolly

“Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my dad wasn’t totally off base when he said, “Los Angeles is like San Diego’s older, uglier sister that has herpes.” . . . “Remember. Family,” he said. “Also, how do I get back to I-5? I hate this fucking city.”
Justin Halpern