We went to L.A. as a family, with a sort of vision that we were going to 'make it,' whatever that meant.
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What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.
I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.
L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'
Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.
L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.
I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
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