Quotes About Nostalgia

First time I met Hulk Hogan, I had a life-sized poster of him in my room and I idolized him as a kid.

My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.

I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

I miss the newness of Magic Eye posters, which really are amazing.

Songs are like sign posts in my life.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.

My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know?

My nan always had lots of jewellery and I remember she had these little pots that she kept on the dressing table. I would sit in front of the mirror and try it all on.

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

I'm a 'Harry-Potter'-till-I-die kind of person. Those are the movies I grew up on. I was like, 'Why would I want to watch any other movies when there's 'Air Bud' and 'Harry Potter?'' It makes no sense why I have to expand my movie-viewing experience when I have two really wonderful films.

My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.

'Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

One thing that did give me pause for thought, when I told my female friends now that I was writing about a 13-year-old girl, without exception they all said, 'I would not go back to being 13 for a million pounds.'

My dad got an old bike for five pounds, re-sprayed it, made it look like a BMX and put big handlebars on it. I loved it.

I always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home - my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.