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100 + Los Angeles Quotes for Inspiring Instagram Captions

There is no denying that Los Angeles is an amazing city to visit and very instagrammable! 

Here are 100+  Los Angeles Quotes to (hopefully) inspire you to visit Los Angeles or if you have already been use as awesome Instagram captions! If you need the perfect caption for your post about Hollywood, head over to this post for some funny Hollywood captions.

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100+ Los Angeles Quotes for inspiring instagram captions

Los Angeles Instagram Captions

Los Angeles is one of the best places in the world for Instagrammers. Here are our favourite Los Angeles Instagram captions:

“I left my heart in LA.”

“Living it Up in Los Angeles.”

“California dreamin’.”

“Los Angeles is the city that I love.”

“In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.” -Denzel Washington

“Lost in Los Angeles.”

A boulevard called sunset.”

Hollywood isn’t a place. It’s a way of life.”

“LA is my lady.”

“Nothing comes close to the golden coast.”

“I can still hear the waves from the West Coast.”

Don’t miss out on this Los Angeles bliss.”

“If I can’t go to Heaven, L.A. is the next best thing.”

“But first, let’s go to California.”

“Welcome to the Hotel California.”

“More Pacific Ocean, please.”

Relationship status: In love with sunsets and this city.”

“Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.” — Emily Mortimer

Stop saying tomorrow. Take a trip to Los Angeles now.”

“We were made in LA.”

“The sky’s more blue in Malibu.”

“In Los Angeles, you can have the city life and feel like you’re on holiday at the same time.” – Isabel Marant
Los Angeles, I’m yours.”

“You got that special kind of sadness, you got that tragic set of charms, that only comes from time spent in Los Angeles.”

“I’m in Los Angeles today. It smells like an airport.”

“Endless Summer.”

“SMILE! You are in Los Angeles!”

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Los Angeles Funny Quotes

Here are our favourite Los Angeles Funny Quotes:

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” – Andy Warhol

“I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America, its like half an hour on the plane.” – Craig Ferguson • “Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.” – Norman Mailer

“The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.” – Phil Ochs

“In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.” – Delia Ephron

“Los Angeles is just New York lying down.” – Quentin Crisp

“In Los Angeles everyone is a star.” – Denzel Washington

“I mean, who would want to live in a place where the only cultural advantage is that you can turn right on a red light?” – Woody Allen

“So, I live in Los Angeles, and it’s kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.” – George Carlin

“The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don’t go anywhere, but you still get paid.” – Daniel Tosh

“I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just like the weather.” – Carly Rea Jepsen

“Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady ‘Send one of my bags to New York, one to Los Angeles, and one to Miami.’ She said ‘We can’t do that!’ I told her. ‘You did it last week!’” – Henny Youngman

“I love Thanksgiving turkey. It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.” ― Jack Kerouac

“Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live.” – Monica Potter

“South Central Los Angeles is the home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.” – Ron Finley

“Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.” – Patrick Duffy

“Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.” ― George Carlin

“That wasn’t Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old,” Kate said.

I told you, they age slower out here. It’s all the fresh California air,” Val replied.

“Yes, because that’s exactly what Los Angeles is known for,” Kate said dryly. Clean air.” ― Julie James

“In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people.” ― Kris Kidd

“Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.” – Farrah Fawcett

Los Angeles Lyrics

Lyrics can also be perfect for Instagram captions. Here are our favourite lyrics about LA.

“In Los Angeles, when will you save me, Los Angeles.” – blink-182, Los Angeles

“I met a man, he was a good man, sailing and shoring, dancing the beta can-can, making me foreign, oh yeah… I want to live in Los Angeles…” – Frank Black, Los Angeles

“Yellow sands, into Los Angeles, stones are falling down, yellow sands, into Los Angeles, stones are falling down… Light is found, blood is falling.. I am.” – Fact, Paradox

“Studios, and men built Columbia, studios, and men built Los Angeles, it is 5 am, and you are listening to Los Angeles, and the radioman says, it is.” – Soul Coughing, Screenwriter’s Blues

“Los Angeles I’m coming home so many miles ago we had to part, Los Angeles how great the name City of Angels home of my heart.” – Dave Dudley, City of Angels

“When the hills of Los Angeles are burning, palm trees are candles in the murder wind, so many lives are on the breeze, even the stars are ill..” – Bad Religion, Los Angeles is Burning

“Sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in, the city of angels. As lonely as I am together we cry.” – Red Hot Chili Peppers

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NCIS Los Angeles Quotes

Here are our favourite NCIS Los Angeles quotes:

“Too often we lose sight of life’s simple pleasures. Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, BUT, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and Glibbs-slap the idiot on the back of the head!” – NCIS

“I don’t know that NCIS’: Los Angeles’ is a complete reinvention, but I’m playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I’d be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.” – Chris O’Donnelle

Famous Los Angeles Captions

Here are our favourite famous Los Angeles quotes:

“Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There’s a great deal of wonderful energy there.” – Alan Rickman

“Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it’s always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.” – Christina Grimmie

“The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don’t go anywhere, but you still get paid.” – Daniel Tosh

“I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.” – Zoe Kravitz
“We are all citizens of Los Angeles because we have seen so many movies.” – D.J. Waldie

“Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.” – Fran Lebowitz

“L.A. is epidemically everywhere and discernible only in glimpses.” – James Ellroy”I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.” – Billy Connolly

“In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.” – Ellie Kemper

“It is redundant to die in Los Angeles.” – Truman Capote

“Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.” – Henry Miller

“There’s the Hollywood sign; there’s Griffith Observatory; there’s the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It’s 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.” – Robert Crais

“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.” – Simon Hoggart

“If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.”–Barbara Kruger

“I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.” – Billy Connolly

“The great Nietzsche told us to live dangerously. In Los Angeles there is no alternative.” – Robert Winter and David Gebhard

“With Los Angeles, it’s kind of a love hate thing. Sometimes I think it’s marvelous, and sometimes I think it’s a dump. It’s so fake and I can’t deal with how fake it is.” – Joe Elliott

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” –Frank Lloyd Wright

“Perhaps there is no life after death….there’s just Los Angeles.” – Richard Anderson

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“Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn’t like it is either crazy or sober.” – Raymond Chandler

“Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.” – Kyle Chandler

“It’s hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, ‘Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.’ It’s tricky: You’re excited by the possibilities, but you don’t want to get too crazy.” – Chelsea Peretti

“He smiles but in Los Angeles a smile amongst competitors is never what it means.” – Tyler Knight

“When its 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles. “ – Neil Simon

“Los Angeles is a large city like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel. “ – Fran Lebowitz

“Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.” – Carter Burwell

“I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their garage, their car, and the next thing you know, they’re at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or the office. They’re in a bubble the whole time.” – Alec Baldwin

“Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.” – George Carlin

“Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog choked space cradle.” – Diablo Cody

“I do love America. And Los Angeles is a very short commute to America. It’s like half an hour on the plane.” – Craig Ferguson

“Los Angeles has no seasons, so it’s kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.” – Kris Kidd

“Los Angeles and all of Southern California is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.” – Otis Chandler

“Los Angeles is such a widespread city, sometimes it’s hard to see your friends, and food is a great way to get together it’s a great way of giving love.” – Sofia Milos

“Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.” Jack Kerouac

“People don’t live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.” – Marianne Williamson

“Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically — any way you want to look at it — everybody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.” – Michael Connelly

“I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.” – Pamela Anderson

“Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from Western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.” – RuPaul

“Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I’m a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult — it’s the beast that must be fed. There’s this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.” – Julia Roberts

“When you’re in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!” – William Sadler

“In Los Angeles, you can have the city life and feel like you’re on holiday at the same time.” – Isabel Marant

“Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.” – Jeckie Gayle

“In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you’re coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you’ll encounter a coyote. And they’re very lean, hungry looking animals.” – Dan Gilroy

“If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.” – Barbara Kruger

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!” – John Fante

“The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.” ― Rick Riordan

“It’s [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they’ll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren’t even young and beautiful now.” ― Christopher Hitchens

“Los Angeles is the great experiment. The things we are going through now, the whole country will be going through in a few years.” – Gary Phillips

“When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn’t get looked at as God, you freak.” Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Los Angeles is a much better theater town than it ever gets credit for. There’s a lot of good theater out there.” – Michael Ritchie

“Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my dad wasn’t totally off base when he said, “Los Angeles is like San Diego’s older, uglier sister that has herpes.” . .

“Remember. Family,” he said. “Also, how do I get back to I-5? I hate this fucking city.” Justin Halpern

“Los Angeles on its day off. There’s not any hierarchy of taste, and that’s what L.A. always was to me: It’s not really a town of culture – it’s a town of entertainment.” – James Turrell

“Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.” Jean Baudrilliard

“I wake up every morning and I feel like I’m juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I’m cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.” – Victoria Beckham

“As a person who grew up in Los Angeles – that’s a very diverse place – I’ve always felt like that diversity is a blessing. It’s not a problem to be solved: it’s a gift to be thankful for.” – Kamasi Washington

“In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much you take it for granted.” – Ryan Holiday

We hope you loved the list and found your perfect Los Angeles Quote!

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  • MC Miller

    MC Miller is a travel blogger and writer who has travelled America extensively and abroad to over 80 countries. He founded Couple Travel The World in 2017. Since then, he has spent over 6 years on the road as a full time travel couple. When he not traveling he likes to spend quality time with his partner Bett, planning our their next date or romantic getaway!