Classic Los Angeles Quotations

California's largest city is more than just freeways, palm trees and plastic surgeons.  Los Angeles is an Alpha City, a global mecca, and a symbol of opportunity for billions of ambitious dreamers.  Everyone has a perspective on L.A., so there are many profound quotations about the City Of Angels.

Here are some of the best quotes about La La Land --- the good, the bad, and the funky:

"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

"Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water." - from the movie Chinatown

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit." - Rush Limbaugh

"Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads.  There's a great deal of wonderful energy there." - Alan Rickman

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

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

"I'm a Valley Girl.  You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here." - Cindy Margolis

"Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic." - Norman Mailer

"L.A. I liked because the degenerates there all stay in their separate suburban houses." - Paul Morrisey

"Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles." - Rona Barrett

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

"Los Angeles is just New York lying down." - Quentin Crisp

"We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going." - Rita Rudner

"Los Angeles is seventy-two suburbs in search of a city." - Dorothy Parker

"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles." - Phil Ochs

"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star." - Denzel Washington

"Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic." - Jonathan Culler

"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right.  That's when you want to choke people, you know?" - Liam Neeson

"Los Angeles is a much better theater town than it ever gets credit for --- there's a lot of good theater out there." - Michael Ritchie

"When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool." - Luke Wilson

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

"When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belonged somewhere... I didn't get looked at as *God, you freak*." - Jennifer Love Hewitt

"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

"In Los Angeles, by the time you're thirty-five, you're older than most of the buildings." - Delia Ephron

"When it's 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles.  When it's 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72.  However, there are 6-million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles." - Neil Simon