Orange County Quotes:

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

- Michelle Pfeiffer

source: "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

topic: Orange, Midwest, Way, Orange County

There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

- Will Ferrell

source: Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 03, 2003.

topic: Sexy, Orange, County, Orange County

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

- Rupert Murdoch

topic: Mean, Orange, Greek, Orange County

I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years.

- Aaron Peirsol

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Beach, California, Numbers, Orange County

I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.

- Gwen Stefani

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Fashion, Growing Up, Orange, Orange County

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal.

- Gwen Stefani

source: "Q & A With Gwen Stefani of No Doubt". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 2000.

topic: Girl, Orange, Loving Family, Orange County

As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.

- Mitchell Hurwitz

source: Source: collider.com

topic: New York, Growing Up, Thinking, Orange County, Always Thinking

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

- Josh Schwartz

topic: Thinking, Orange, Different, Orange County, County

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Grandmother, Orange, Doors, Orange County, Durham

When I was born, they didn't work. They're broken, the nerves in my lower left lip. When I was kid, I would talk out of the side of my face. When I was 16 and came up to Hollywood from Orange County, I was in this cattle call audition for Batman and Robin at Warner Bros., and they interviewed me out front of the studio. When I got home, I was like, "Oh, this was exciting!" But then when I watched the news, I was like, "Mom, what is wrong with my mouth?!"

- Milo Ventimiglia

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Mom, Kids, Home, Orange County, Warner Bros

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

- Donavon Frankenreiter

source: Source: www.hamptons.com

topic: Beach, California, Orange, Orange County

Rick Rubin came to my concert in Orange County, Calif. I believe this was, like, '83 when he first came and listened to the show. And then afterwards, I went in the dressing room and sat and talked to him.

- Johnny Cash

source: Source: wrvo.org

topic: Believe, Orange, Rooms, Orange County

I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county hardcore sinister to making a movie like [Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates], which is made for the pure pleasure of getting together with creative people and making a movie. Alex Cox would be proud.

- Evan Jacobs

source: Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com

topic: Writing, Orange, People, Orange County

My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.

- Donald Bren

topic: Unique, Two, Orange, Orange County

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

- Bob Gunton

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Mean, Oasis, California, Orange County

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

- Michael B. Jordan

topic: Sorry, Dad, Years, Orange County, East Coast

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

- Michelle Pfeiffer

topic: Moving, Careers, Orange, Orange County

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

- Pat Paulsen

topic: Song, Brother, Moving, Orange County

I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.

- Mark Hoppus

topic: Beach, Thinking, Orange, Orange County

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

- Travis Barker

topic: Play, Orange, Guy, Orange County, County