California Dreaming Quotes

I work in L.A. from time to time.

Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.

I love Sacramento. I consider this home.

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.

Los Angeles is my home - I have my wife and two daughters growing up there.

I love L.A. I'd move there tomorrow if I could.

I have two houses in California, and they're both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

I have a boutique in L.A. and travel there frequently. My visits always put me in a good mood. Maybe it's all the sunshine. I could totally live in L.A.

There's something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill.

I'm a Cali girl through and through.

You can't have everything, even in California

LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, socially and professionally.

Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.