Quotes About Nostalgia

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

'The Office' is not one of those things you move away from. I don't want it to go away.

People always say, 'You can't go home again,' but every time I go to the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Legends Fanfest in Charlotte, it feels like I have.

I went to my first go-go when I was in, like, sixth grade.

Robert De Niro, I have loved this man forever. I mean, I think I have seen the 'Godfather' 300 times, but he is so special.

I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

I think '50s was the golden period. I am a fan of '50s cinema. I wish I was born at that time.

People come up to me and say that when I did films, that was the golden era, but I don't agree with that.

Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.

I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.

Like catching a glimpse of the McDonald's golden arches after a night out, when I see the blue and white Boots sign in the distance I feel comforted.

I think as time goes on, people may realize the golden age of wrestling may have been in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. - usually the '40s or '50s - 90 percent of the time, they're a straight white man.

I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.

I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.