Quotes About Nostalgia

I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

I used to hang out at Pacific Fair all the time.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

I was a huge theater nerd when I was younger, so I was in a bunch of school musicals - Working,' South Pacific,' Fiddler on the Roof,' a very weird little operetta called Charlotte Sweet,' Nine,' The Wiz.'

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

I couldn't go on an '80s package show or anything like that. I have a lot more to give. If you go down that road completely I think you'll stay with a certain type of audience. Again I'm not knocking it. People go for the fun of the hits, it's what they've grown up with.

I spent 90 percent of my childhood playing SNES and N64, and my favorite games were the ones packed with secrets.

I love a place packed with history.

When I was younger, I grew up a Packers fan because my dad played for the Packers. As I got older, I've fallen away from it.

Michael Vaughan gave me his old thigh pad when he retired. It was in my kitbag for a long time.

Many for whom the stage has been the launch pad to cinema have forgotten their roots. I don't intend to, ever.

I remember my first shin pads had the Brazilian Ronaldo on them, and I loved them.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.