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You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

We went to L.A. as a family, with a sort of vision that we were going to 'make it,' whatever that meant.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.