“When Jack Warner hired him to write scripts at the studio, Mizner came into Warner's office with the Los Angeles telephone book, dropped it on his desk and said, 'This might have been good for a picture — except it has too many characters in it.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz On Wilson Mizner

“I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.”
Wayne Knight

“In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.”
Jena Malone

“Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.”
Josh Hartnett

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