Al Jolson Quotes

I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.

California is always in my mind.

We never really wanted to play in California.

I am a California Kid.

I'm a California kid.

California: The west coast of Iowa.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

California is an unbelievable state.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.

I had fallen in love with California.

I'm meant for California.

Los Angeles was really beautiful, and California in general is a great place to live.

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.

California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

One returns to the place one came from.

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.

I'm a Cali girl through and through.