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I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

— Paulette Goddard

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

— Douglas Sirk

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

— Loni Anderson

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

— Rob Lowe

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

— Mark Haddon

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

— Matthew Perry

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

— Evangeline Lilly

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

— Roman Coppola

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood.

— Mike Birbiglia

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

— Ice Cube