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I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

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.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.