11 Movie Quotes about Los Angeles (+ Sound Clips)

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

1 You are in the center of what used to be Los Angeles.

Sandra Bullock as Lenina Huxley in Demolition Man

2 Why are you going to L.A. for? You wanna be a movie star?

Wayne From Shottas in Shottas

3 They call Los Angeles the City of Angels. I didn't find it to be that, exactly.

Sam Elliott in The Big Lebowski

4 I'm getting the _ out of L.A. _ this _. _ it. You can't go nowhere without it getting all shot up and _.

Cuba Gooding Jr.; Cuba Gooding Jr. as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood

5 You see, Qantas doesn't fly to L.A. out of Cincinnati. You have gotta get to Melbourne, Australia in order to get the plane that flies to Los Angeles!

Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man (1988)

6 This is Bel Air. The lush, luxurious retreat of the wealthy and powerful.

Jack Palance as Charlie Castle in The Big Knife (1955)

7 Man, L.A. has changed a lot during that time. The air got dirty, and the sex got clean.

Gary Busey as Angelo Pappas in Point Break (1991)

8 A man who arrived in Los Angeles as a barefoot boy has a good chance of leaving tomorrow morning as a barefoot man.

Art Linkletter as Happy Hogan in Champagne for Caesar

9 The land is so big, the choices so infinite. Where shall we go? Los Angeles or New York?

Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem in Coming to America (1988)

10 If you work in the motion picture industry and are successful, this well-tended suburb of Hollywood is where you will probably make your home.