Quotes About Nostalgia

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory days when you get older and drink Bud with the guys from the office. Get it done when you're young, while you have the chance.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

My first day at Duddingston Primary is probably my first memory.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

I've always bought CDs and even when I was young and at primary school I had a massive collection of CDs. I just like the excitement of opening it, reading the book, learning all the words and things like that. Hopefully I'll always be like that.

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

My mum was my primary school cook which was handy because she used to give me extra portions. After school me and my brother used to go in the kitchen and wait for her there, and she used to give us a bit of cake and things.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

For me, the Parc des Princes is special, somewhere I'd go to spend my pocket money.

My main memory of the Princes Trust concert at Wembley was Ringo Starr asking for my autograph for his kids. Ringo Starr, asking me! That was quite a moment.

I grew up when Disney was doing movies like Cinderella, and all the girls were princesses.

The first game I remember being ridiculously passionate about was Super Mario Bros. 2. It was the first game where you could play as Princess Peach. It wasn't just a game where the boys had their adventure. Peach was in the game and she was so powerful there.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

I love print comics.

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical about feeling the paper, making notes and page marks.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.