I decided to an actress because of the film ‘La Dolce Vita.’
I started writing this feature comedy in New York – a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
Please, if you go to Palm Springs, stay at the La Quinta.
I want to try out La Liga once more, as I didn’t get to play much the previous time.
In January ’77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don’t know what that means. Maybe there’s something that just pulls ’em out.
It’s hard to be dainty and la la la when you’re also supposed to be strong.
I rent houses in LA when I’m filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There’s nowhere to go, there’s nowhere to be with people. I’m not a beach bunny.
I love the life in LA, it really suits this point in time, but London is home. I feel like I’m lucky that I get to have a bit of both, so rather than have to choose life just works out where I have to be in one place.
But here’s my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don’t wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.
When I’m home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs primarily, but also patisserie and cakes.
From the level, both leagues are equal. You’ll win no game easily. It’s always a lot of work. This is true in La Liga as well as in the Bundesliga. You must always give all you have.
All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like ‘That’s it!’. I went to LA and I got the part.
But no, I’m still living in LA and haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.
I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw ‘La Dolce Vita.’
I don’t have a lot of time to lose and I would like to win the Champions League or La Liga. If I could win them both, even better.
When my husband and I worked as line cooks in LA, we lived in a constant state of broke and tired.
I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn’t know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn’t get any of those parts.
It’s not a deliberate thing. It’s not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It’s just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you’re going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that’s what happened.
The only people who do plays in LA are people who can’t get jobs in TV shows.
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
What I’ve achieved with Boux Avenue is what I always wanted to achieve with La Senza.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early ’90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don’t get it at all.
My time at Real Madrid wasn’t a failure. I played 120 matches, I scored 28 goals, and I played an average of 30 games a season. What’s more, I won three trophies: La Liga, a Copa del Rey, and a Supercopa de Espana.
LA’s a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don’t take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody’s giving each other catty looks.
I was never late to a show more often than ‘La Cage.’ Because I lived close, and I didn’t really do anything in that show.
We were producing ‘La La Land’… and then we weren’t. So it was a very painful topic, but I’m happy the movie was as successful as it was. And, of course, I wish we had produced it.
If I’m feeling in a naughty mood, I’ll steal some of Mama’s Creme De La Mer. If I’m feeling in a very naughty mood, I’ll steal some of Daddy’s Creme De La Mer. On the whole though, I’m very low maintenance.
I like visiting LA, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
I needed Oscar De La Hoya to get motivated.
I then moved to LA when I was 16… but before that I had done a play on Broadway.
My comic timing is completely based on Pu La’s literature, his style of writing and the wittiness between the lines.
I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, ‘Can we just stay?’ So we did.
In LA, where I live, it’s all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
We all fled from religion. Living la vida loca, whatever. The ’60s, you know. But it always stayed in my heart. As I got older, I started coming back to religion.
I want Real Madrid to win it all in 2011-12. The Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
I’ve been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
There won’t be more Messis, and we don’t expect there to be more, as there won’t be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me.
Going back to your country and playing for a big team and being able to enjoy playing La Liga would be a good thing for my career.
You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it’s really fun to go there. But they’re not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It’s too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it’s distracting to me.
De Niro didn’t gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat – every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy’s cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn’t care.
If you look at La Liga, you will see how important the academies are when it comes to producing new talent. Academies play a major role and that is something India should understand.
I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I’m still hoping though.
Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn’t have the star power Oscar has.
We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn’t some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn’t play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical.
Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
I’m a fan of very, very expensive creams: Creme de la Mer, La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe. I’m a huge fan. They work.
I’m happy here at Everton. When I decided to come here, I came thinking only in my club, which is Everton, and nothing else. What has to happen next will happen next. I feel comfortable here. I do not know whether my game is more suited to the Premier league or La Liga, but I am very well here.
A sports writer who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would listen and it would seem reasonable.
I used to spend summers with my Granma in Louisiana; Crowley, LA.
I think Calvin is so beautiful. Oscar De La Renta is so classic. I really like the Rodarte girl; they are super-inventive, and they think outside the box. I am all over the place!
How many different works of art have been inspired by ‘Don Quixote?’ Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the ‘Man Of La Mancha.’
I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing ‘I Am What I Am’ in the musical ‘La Cage aux Folles.’ I thought I was absolutely dreadful. It’s like when you see photos of yourself at parties – at the time you thought you looked so cool and glamorous but you just look a bit drunk.
The best thing about my apartment is that it looks over Oscar de la Renta and all the shops.
When I went to Spain two years ago, I only knew three Valencia players. I didn’t know anything about La Liga, and within six months, I knew everything. I was speaking another language and knew everything about the game, so I am a fast learner.
‘La Vie en Rose’ is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I’m so desperately obsessed with her work.
La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.
