Louise Linton Quotes

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

Washington is a city which drives us all to the lowest common denominator.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

When I first went to L.A., I really hated it. I had this preconceived idea of what it would be like. You think of Hollywood as this beautiful place, but everything looks rundown and old.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

Washington's a mean city ... it's savage.

Washington is busy with nothing that absorbs the minds and occupies the energies of the typical American city.

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.

I felt it was more a mechanism to destroy me than anything else. I came to Washington like a prime steak, and after being here for a while I feel like a poor grade hamburger.

I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public office in Washington. Here ruining people is considered a sport … Politics is a blood sport.

When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

It's difficult to adapt to Barcelona.

I just couldn't get along with L.A. It just wasn't me.