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
Related Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDre... PATRICK DEMPSEY My agent called me Wednesday [July 13] and asked how I liked Los Angeles. I said that I liked it fin... JUSTIN MENTELL And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do th... JEFF LINDSAY I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people... EDWARD RUSCHA Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I They almost felt like they had lost a son and gained one back. JAMES REDDY Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have le... CANELO ALVAREZ I found out this morning. I have to go back (to Los Angeles) for surgery. JEREMY ROENICK Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. C. JOYBELL C. I asked myself over and over again what more information could be gained, what and who could be save... RAFI EITAN Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As ... WHITLEY STRIEBER I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I m... MATTHEW PERRY On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the cit... BERTOLT BRECHT I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. NICOLAS CAGE I have gained my experience. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then s... DAN GILROY There was a point last week where I was having conversations with film and celebrity management peop... DEBORAH LEWIS I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and fo... KATHRYN HARRISON I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I ... LESLIE DIXON Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I ... NICK HORNBY I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have... JACOB ARTIST In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lo... OZWALD BOATENG I grew up in Los Angeles, and I always wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles. CURTIS HANSON I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I ... ERIN GRAY [Morris then flew out to Los Angeles in May 2004 to start filming for the movie. The filming took si... CHRIS MORRIS I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of ... MARCUS ALLEN Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me ha... ANTHONY RYAN I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find mysel... NICHOLAS SPARKS I've gained no insight, no mellowing. I would make the same mistakes again. WOODY ALLEN Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness. ROBBIE WILLIAMS I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, dep... MAHERSHALA ALI Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes. JAMES GALWAY I thought I had lost myself while finding the one, soon I realized he had found what I had lost. AFRAH RASHID I’m really tired of people saying what is lost in translation. Look at what you gain. You gain thr... ARSHIA SATTAR When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curio... JACK HANDY As a child, I gained the deepest understanding of food, without even knowing it. RAYMOND BLANC Lee tried to kill me and that wasn't nice. I came through it and I gained great heart. KEVIN PIETERSEN I awoke one morning and found myself famous. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I awoke one morning and found myself famous. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous. LORD BYRON It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a tim... MADI DIAZ I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angele... DYLAN BRUCE [Kenneth Pollack of National Defense University said Saddam Hussein felt he had not lost anything an... KENNETH POLLACK I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly di... BRIGITTE BARDOT They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating thre... YASMINE BLEETH I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that... JOE FLANIGAN I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles. BRENDA BLETHYN I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, a... ROBERT REDFORD It was me who loved him more than I did myself, I gained nothing in return but pain and sorrow. I le... NISHI DE SILVA Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't... RYAN GIGGS We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy... BARBARA BRENNAN I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial... A. J. BOWEN I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I s... HANK WILLIAMS I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. BETH HENLEY I ran the Los Angeles Marathon, which was my first one and I went untrained. By mile 20, I was walki... ERIC WORTMAN I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell... ALEXANDRA SHIPP I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me ... MOBY I had an epiphany a few years ago when I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me t... MOBY My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, le... MOTHER ANGELICA We Are All Zeros But We Can Make Ourselves As Heroes DR. ARUN S SON I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me,... SHIA LABEOUF I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... G.K. CHESTERTON I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where... NOLAN NORTH I was born and raised in Los Angeles. ERIK GRIFFIN I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather. CARLY RAE JEPSEN I definitely gained more confidence and a better understanding of what the car requires of me. ANDREW THOMPSON The players think it was two lost and I think that it was one gained. I think it was one gained beca... DAVID HODGSON I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I s... HANK WILLIAMS It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I don't want it to look like a Los Angeles channel. I want it to look like a creek. COUNCILWOMAN ESTHER SANCHEZ For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so di... ROBIN WASSERMAN I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, withou... SOICHIRO HONDA Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. JOSEPH ROUX In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them. HORATIO NELSON We had our team meal one time in Calgary. I mentioned Patrick Roy. They suspended me out of the meal... DAN CLEARY I gained a guardian angel. TRAVIS KNUTSON I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering... BRYCE HOWARD I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New... ZACH GALLIGAN When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight a... WARREN MOON Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle. DIABLO CODY Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. LAYNE STALEY I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based. RAIN PHOENIX Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I... PETER FALK
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