Quotes About Nostalgia

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town.

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.