Eve Babitz Quotes

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.'

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.'

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

It's always been my dream to come to L.A.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Hollywood is always about Hollywood.

I have way more freedom in Los Angeles and in the U.S. But it's funny because when I have a meeting with producers or people from the industry, we go to a restaurant to meet someone, and nobody knows me. But all of the sudden, the entire kitchen comes out, and they start taking pictures with me, or at valet parking.

There is winter in L.A., there is rain in L.A. But there is no rain on 'Entourage.'

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

Hollywood is a strange place.

Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people, and I started doing a few American films of various levels of quality.

There's a generation that doesn't care if Tom Cruise is at the top of the movie. They want authenticity.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.