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It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.

— Ryan Gosling

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Kate Braverman

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

— Dominick Dunne

I would feel like such a behind if I went to California and made my family move, and they couldn't find their dreams there, too.

— RJ Cyler

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

— Sam Mendes

I don't mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.

— Nicolas Berggruen

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

— Jessica Chastain

I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.

— George Stroumboulopoulos

I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.

— Robin Wright

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

— Wayne Knight

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

— Nicholas Lea