Quotes About Nostalgia

I have been very inspired and influenced by 'The Little Rascals' my entire career.

I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

I grew up with 'The Little Rascals' and always try to work a link into every one of my movies.

'The Little Rascals' was set against the background of the Great Depression: the characters were living in poverty. It's just that it wasn't focused on it. It was focused on what makes childhood universal. We're all laughing at kids because we see ourselves in them; we remember our childhood.

When I was little, I was obsessed with Roland Rat. I also loved Danger Mouse. Later on, when I got a bit older, I was obsessed with Ren & Stimpy, but Roland Rat and Danger Mouse, they were my guys. They were my team.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

There's a picture of me at 3 years old playing the baby rat in 'The Pied Piper.'

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

I really love what Chuck Berry did with Christmas music, and also the Rat Pack Christmas stuff, which I listened to all through my childhood.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

When I was a kid in the 6th grade and first learned how to dance with a girl, we had a record called 'Shake Rattle and Roll,' made by a group called Bill Haley and His Comets: 'Get out in that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans.' It was all about mundane things.

New Rave was like the 60s - if you can remember it then you weren't there.

I mean, I'd love to see 'The Woman in Black' in the Nineties on the rave scene!

'That's So Raven' was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is what made me want to be on Disney Channel!

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

I say it often, that I feel like I'm just living out the Story Mode in 'Smackdown vs. RAW' that I always used to play.

I've seen many great performers on stage, from Dean Martin to Celine Dion, but nothing beats the first time I saw Elvis. There was no pomp, no pyrotechnics, nothing to distract you from the raw talent of the man in the white jumpsuit.

One day, I brought home Eddie Murphy's 'Raw', and Dad and I would watch that together.

I grew up with Ray Charles playing in the car all the time or playing in the house.

Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

I don't remember getting to see my dad race a lot until later in his career. I remember being at the track a lot. I still see a lot of pictures of myself around my dad at the track as a little kid. The racing I've known him more for is during his time racing with Ray Evernham. The rest of it was before I was ever around.

Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.