By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.
When I decided to go to L.A. 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.
The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.
Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.
I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
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