38 Movie Quotes about California (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 25, 2025

Memorable quotes about california, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 So why California? -You don't freeze while you're starving... It has the movies.

Jane Fonda as Gloria Beatty in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

2 Out in California, they're gonna have some warm weather tomorrow, gang wars and some very overpriced real estate.

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

3 If you had brain one in that huge melon on top of your neck, you would be living the sweet life out in Southern California's beautiful San Fernando Valley.

Bill Murray as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters II

4 We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)

5 Ya ever see the sun come up over the Rockies? It hits all of a sudden, and below there's California. And you swear you're lookin' at heaven.

Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993)

6 No. This is California.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater in Last Action Hero

7 Would you care to share your California, laid-back, tie-dyed, point of view?

Bette Midler as Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson in Hocus Pocus

8 I've just been talking with some trappers who've come out of the Southwest. They say the country they call California is wonderful.

John Wayne as Breck Coleman in The Big Trail (1930)

9 No, I ain't been to California. I don't intend to go either.

John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956)

10 He's a Yankee? -Not exactly. If you're from California, you're not a Yankee. You're not really anything.

Randy Quaid as Tim Daland in Days of Thunder