#angeles

Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve. ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#california #failure #los-angeles #materialism #society

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#cause #changeless #changes #did #indeed

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.' ↗

— John Landis

#away #been #chicago #choose #cities

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school. ↗

— Natalie Massenet

#attended #catholic #catholic schools #high #high school

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#affiliated #angeles #close #congregation #consider

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#around #articles #beast #big #business

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#blue-collar #community #ever #grew #i

The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#angeles #away #back #back door #children

I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#bags #cases #end #had #i

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#angeles #because #i #i do #like