I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.
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Related I don't believe in diets. They don't necessarily work. What they do is scrub your weight dow... PAUL HOLLYWOOD I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You ... LADY GAGA You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to l... B.O.B I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether i... CHARLES DURNING I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I t... STEVE MARTIN I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and ... MARC WARREN You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and ... PORTIA DE ROSSI Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live ... MICHAEL KORDA The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had t... AL FRANKEN As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If yo... GEORGE FOREMAN You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. I... WALE As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ... SOPHIE THOMPSON Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers co... JULIA ROBERTS It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like... PATRICK FUGIT I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many peo... RODNEY KING I don't care if it's one dollar or a thousand dollars - I'm going to go out and get it. BLAC CHYNA Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what... BARRY JENKINS I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science. ANDY BIERSACK I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. I... JACOB DEGROM People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that t... DAVID SEDARIS Honestly, if you want me to keep it 100, Marilyn Manson has as much style as Kanye West and Pharrell... LIL UZI VERT There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's ... MARK WARKENTIN I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c... ELLEN DEGENERES Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that'... JOAN CUSACK You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't... MARISSA JARET WINOKUR I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the sam... KRISTEN STEWART I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you... CHRIS PINE It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape... RUPAUL I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland... JACK REYNOR I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I... NATE BERKUS I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real re... RICHARD LAGRAVENESE There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's ... FLEUR EAST Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a war... PATRICK LEAHY I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.... BENNY BLANCO I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy. IMELDA MAY I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you... ELAINE IRWIN If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out... JACK WELCH Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but... ALLISON WILLIAMS I'm just so used to music videos or live TV, so to really see something that's scripted and ... MAREN MORRIS Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business?... KEVIN NASH I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science wh... BOB HARPER I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all ri... DYLAN WALSH I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you... DAVE BAUTISTA I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'... MEL B I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've... BERT LANCE As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't e... DAVEY HAVOK I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rac... JERRY HALL To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or fri... BRENDA SONG I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea,... NEIL PEART I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ... ANTHONY HOPKINS I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three fee... SCOTT PATTERSON I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely ... MIKA BRZEZINSKI It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have ... JAMIE FOXX I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it... PIPER PERABO It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world a... DAVID MUIR There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ... TAYLOR PHINNEY Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, ... MORGAN FREEMAN I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am lear... LUIS SUAREZ You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion tha... BEAR GRYLLS You don't get recognized that much unless you want to get recognized, like if you go to the fanc... TRAVIS FIMMEL I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and i... TORY LANEZ When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you ... NAS I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se... HAROLD PRINCE I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilt... ORSON WELLES I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rath... PARIS HILTON You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best yea... DAVID ORTIZ I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in ... SAM ROCKWELL It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's per... GORDON BETHUNE If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fin... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't li... ZADIE SMITH You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som... CAROL BURNETT If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone.... CARMEN ELECTRA There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, yo... LEOS CARAX I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think i... PRINCE ROYCE People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to ... MICHAEL PHELPS If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use... RUSH LIMBAUGH I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuck... TOM WAITS You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes... MARA WILSON Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think... KATE ASHFIELD What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you... BEN STILLER I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you w... RAY BRADBURY I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to ... JERRY SPRINGER My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it's not like before when I couldn't... GLENNE HEADLY I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always to... MONTE IRVIN As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast. CHRIS PRATT I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy... CAMPBELL SCOTT I strongly believe that you can't win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. ... DOUGLAS CONANT I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest m... RIDLEY SCOTT I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, bu... JENNY LEWIS It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they... ELISHA CUTHBERT I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, ... DAVID CHASE
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