Anne Murray Quotes

I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

Living someplace like L.A. seemed awful to me.

I hate L.A. Can't be bothered.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

L.A. is big, although Hollywood's not as glamorous as I thought; it's kind of grungy.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.

I really tried to avoid living in L.A. for as long as I can.

New York City has changed enormously. My gut impression of it now is that it's like being in a sci-fi novel: 'Blade Runner' syndrome. Nothing seems real anymore; everything is pre-packaged.

Boy, I wouldn't want to live in L.A.

The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's a lot more space to feel isolated in. In Los Angeles, you have to meet the person, then walk out separately to your own cars, and follow the person to their neighborhood, and then pray that street parking isn't going to mess things up.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the hunger and the beauty of its adolescence and went straight to a middle-aged ugly, overfed monster seeking mindless pleasure and being obsessively acquisitive. It's so materialistic. It grew up, but it didn't mature.

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.