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Quotes About Nostalgia

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
~ Benedict Wong
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
~ Mackenzie Davis
No, 'Point Break' for me - growing up on the beaches of Sydney as a surfer, it was kind of the movie that we watched every week. For me to be Johnny Utah, I'm beside myself.
~ Luke Bracey
David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.
~ Timothy Simons
I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.
~ Gia Coppola
I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.
~ Ansel Elgort
I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.
~ Colin Trevorrow
I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
~ Rachel Tucker
I worked with Kathy Rigby, and it's a concept called 'Peter Perry': it's all of Katy Perry's songs telling the story of Peter Pan. Kathy was so sweet, and it was such a cool experience to meet her and work with her and use the set that I had watched on television for so many years.
~ Todrick Hall
My great grandfather had been the neighbourhood 'horse whisperer,' so I've probably loved horses since I was an embryo. Whenever I watched cowboy films as a small child, I wasn't watching the hunky cowboys - which I'd probably do now - I was watching the horses. Even now, I love sitting in the field just watching the way they move.
~ Lee Pearson
If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
~ J. K. Simmons
Real Super 8 is creepy. If you went into your grandmother's attic and found her Super 8 films and watched them, I don't care what was on them, there would be something a little creepy feeling about it.
~ Scott Derrickson
My mother is a very big cinema buff, so as a kid, we watched a lot of Indian and Malay films.
~ Michelle Yeoh
My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o'clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a kid, it was 'Family Ties' and 'Roseanne' and 'Growing Pains' and 'Perfect Strangers' and 'Golden Girls.' I mean, I watched everything.
~ Simon Helberg
I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.
~ Deepika Padukone
For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.
~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.
~ Ruth Negga
'Sugarland Express' is a movie that I really loved and watched a lot.
~ Greg Mottola
I had two DVDs my junior year. One was 'Fletch' and one was 'Goodfellas,' and I watched those movies so much. I just remember eating Ramen noodles and watching 'Goodfellas.'
~ Jeff Nichols
I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growing up.
~ Alia Shawkat
When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.
~ Dennis Farina
When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all this 'Dick Tracy' stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop.
~ Ryan Gosling
I had to pinch myself. I got the call and didn't expect it. And right up 'til nearly the end of filming, I was thinking, 'Am I actually doing a film with Akshay Kumar?' because I was a massive Akshay Kumar fan before, and the first film that I ever watched was his and Katrina's film, 'Namastey London.'
~ Amy Jackson
Children don't mind when something was made - they don't discriminate in that way. I tape very early episodes of 'Rainbow' and 'Trumpton' for my son and watch them with him. He loves them. 'Trumpton' was made in 1967, but he still watches it like it's brand new.
~ Peter Kay