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Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

In LA, I live on sushi or salad.

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?