A Quote by Dick Van Dyke

One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

Dick Van Dyke

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Dick Van Dyke
American - Actor
Born: December 13, 1925

"Our first conversation was on the phone. I was in the bathtub, and I had to tell him that I was in the bathtub because I was afraid he would think I was, like, playing in the toilet when he heard water swishing around. [...] Then we had breakfast in Santa Monica, and I spit egg inside of his mouth when I was talking.

Jennifer Lawrence

I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

April Bowlby

In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.

Mona Simpson

From a filmmaker's point of view, there is something undeniably cinematic about a location like Santa Monica Boulevard, which is so chaotic and busy and over-stimulating.

Sean Baker

I'm an avid mountain biker - complete bike nut is probably more accurate. I've even bought a house in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Yannick Bisson

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

Denis Leary

I had been pulled over quite a bit by police officers, especially in Santa Monica and Culver City.

Salim Akil

I was born in L.A. In Santa Monica, actually.

Weyes Blood

Barcelona is very similar to Santa Monica.

Ricky Rubio

I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that.

Barry Barish

I have to at least get a couple weekends in where I can just be on Santa Monica beach or Malibu and just ride the waves.

Jake T. Austin

When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'

John Romita, Sr.

I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the '60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y'know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.

Alex Rocco

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

Geraldine Chaplin

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.