Los Angeles is the second most populated city in the United States (After New York City) and often nicknamed the City of Angels. The city sprawl a coastal plain that is situation between mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Los Angeles county is the largest county in the United States and contains some 90 other incorporated cities including well known cities like Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Long Beach, Venice and Santa Monica.
The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to over 17 million people, with some of the largest immigrant populations in the United States. For example, Los Angeles has the largest Armenian and Korean populations in the United States. It has the fourth largest Jewish population in the world. There is incredible diversity in this town and the metropolitan area is spread across Los Angeles County, Orange County, and parts of San Bernardino County, Riverside County, and Ventura County.
There are many faces to Los Angeles – there is the one that is shown on TV and in the Movies and then there is the side of Los Angeles only seen by those who spend more time, or lie there. If you want glamour and excitement, Hollywood and Beverly Hills will appeal to you. These parts of LA are notorious for the celebrity-oriented culture. And you can even take bus tours of celebrity homes or buy “star maps” that show where famous celebrities live. Or if you want to be near the beach, Long Beach, Santa Monica and Venice will appeal to you.
Overall, Los Angeles is a city that presents you with many options with very distinctive neighborhoods that offer unique experiences. And that has led to many interesting people who have said a lot about the cit
Our Favorite Quotes about Los Angeles
- “I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” –Andy Warhol
- “Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” –Dorothy Parker
- “If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.” –Barbara Kruger
- “I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.” –Steven Morrissey
- “So I live in Los Angeles, and it’s kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.” –George Carlin
- “In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.” –Delia Ephron
- “Living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.” –Sandra Tsing Loh
- “Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.” –Henry Miller
- “Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically — any way you want to look at it — everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.” –Michael Connelly
- “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” –Frank Lloyd Wright
- “I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.” –Craig Ferguson
- “Los Angeles is the nation’s cultural scapegoat.” –Sandra Tsing Loh
- I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. –Jack Kerouac
- “I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn’t know my way around, so I thought I’d walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!” –Ashley Jensen
- “One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It’s not like if you’re in Los Angeles, where everyone’s so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you’re down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you’re depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong.” –Mindy Kaling
- “When its 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.” –Neil Simon
- “Los Angeles has no seasons, so it’s kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.” –Kris Kudd
- “Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.” –Norman Mailer
- “People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn’t do anywhere else.” –Tom Bradley
- “In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.” –Denzel Washington
- “I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every 2 days.” –Billy Connolly
- “Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.” –David Letterman
- “Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.” –Ice T
- “Los Angeles…I mean, who would want to live in a place where the only cultural advantage is that you can turn right on a red light?” –Woody Allen
- “Hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.” — Hilma Wolitzer
- “I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn’t.” — Hugh Laurie
- “A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they’re going to be famous, just like that. – Alison Brie
- “I had a career at home, and I just knew that it’d be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.” – Alona Tal
- “Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.” – Anna Deavere Smith
- “I love Thanksgiving turkey… It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.” –Jonathan Culler
- “The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.” –Phil Ochs
- “In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.” –Ellie Kemper
- “In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.” –Simon Hoggart
- “Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.” – Aldous Huxley
- “Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.” – Alexander Woollcott
- “I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.” – Ashley Jensen
- “I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.” – Brenda Blethyn
- “Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.” – Carter Burwell
- “I’d come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it. “ – Claire Forlani
- “I lived in Los Angeles in the ’80s, which was not the best place to be.” – Corey Haim
- “The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.” – Dave Foley’
- “In Los Angeles, they don’t want you to fail, they want you to die.” – David Geffen
- “I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.” — Greg Fitzsimmons
- “I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!” — Gustavo Dudamel
- “I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!” – David Hasselhoff
- “In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.” – Delia Ephron
- “Los Angelenos dress like they’ve been focus-grouped.” — Douglas Coupland
- “Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.” — Ellie Kemper
- “Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.” — Emily Mortimer
- “Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.” — Farrah Fawcett
- “Los Angeles is a very special city. It’s a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.” — Gustavo Dudamel
- “I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.” — Hedi Slimane
- “Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.”– Warren Cuccurullo
- “I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.” — Zoe Kravitz
- “You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.” — Miranda Richardson
- “Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.” — Jackie Gayle
- “I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.” — Kate Beckinsale
- “Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don’t need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.” — Kathy Lette
- “Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.” — Kyle Chandler
- “Los Angeles, I don’t like that town. Too decadent, and it’s slimy.” — Layne Staley
- “When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don’t think anyone knew what to do with me.” — Jessica Chastain
- “I’d like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.” — Joan Juliet Buck
- There’s no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.” — Marvin Davis
- “I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.” — Nicolas Cage
- “Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.” — Norman Mailer
- Los Angeles is populated by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.” — Patrick Duffy
- “In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.”– Patrick Dempsey
- “I live in a very dangerous part of Los Angeles.. it’s called Los Angeles.” — Ralphie May
- “Los Angeles is a very transient town. It’s the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.” — Rita Rudner
- “A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.” — Viggo Mortensen
Video – Top Reasons to Visit Los Angeles
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Summary
Los Angeles has a long and very interesting history. Los Angeles County is the single largest county in the United States. The people and terrain are quite unique and diverse. It is one of the few cities in the United States where you could go into the mountains to ski and down to the ocean to surf…in the same day! Some cities like Hollywood, West Hollywood and Santa Monica tend to get most of the attention but there are many cities to check out and many things to explore.
People get caught up in The Hollywood and superficial aspects of the city, but Los Angeles has some of the most diverse museums in the world that you will only find in Los Angeles! Also, it is one of the top food scenes in the United States with an incredibly diverse range of ethnic food options.
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