Quotes About Nostalgia

I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.

When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'

When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.

Saturday Night Takeaway' is the show we always wanted to make. It's a direct descendant of 'Game For A Laugh' and 'Noel's House Party' and 'Russ Abbot's Madhouse,' and they're all shows we grew up on as kids.

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.

I'm kind of a simple guy. The best way you can describe it is, I'm the same person I was when I was a kid. Everyone's like, 'Of course you are,' but I'm like, 'No, seriously.' I liked 'ThunderCats' when I was a kid; I call myself Thundercat now.

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

I grew up in a family where we had dessert for breakfast.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

I'm totally devoted to '30s cinema.

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

I remember listening to Eddie Murphy's Delirious on cassette tape - you might have to explain what that is to your younger demographic - with my father. I wanted to make people laugh that hard.

I was born in the overdub years. I wish there wasn't such a thing as a multitrack tape player, because what you heard would be the record.

There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.