Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

I moved to Los Angeles in January 2004 because a buddy of mine, who I met at a friend's wedding, said he could get me a room in his apartment for $500 a month. I took it thinking that it would probably only be about six months before I moved back to Chicago, but I fell in love with it.

When I first came to Hollywood, I couldn't afford a telephone.

I hated L.A. when I first got here. Hated it.

I definitely think L.A. would be a very difficult city to move to and try to make it in. There's a lot of people down there, and it's tough to stand out in the crowd.

I have adapted well in Liverpool.

I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.

When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don't run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.

I love Los Angeles. I love Seattle, too, which is where we have our home. But the notion of spending a lot of time in Los Angeles has been exciting to me for years. The community down there is great.

I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angeles after college.

By the time I graduated from high school in Vancouver, I already had a whole support network set up for me in Los Angeles, so I just moved down.

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

I came down to Los Angeles without knowing anyone. I had my dog, and that was it.

What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

New York is my home. L.A. is my work.

I've never really felt at home in L.A. I've only been here to work, and then I immediately go back to New York.

When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.

London has become a real home.