Quotes About Nostalgia

I am a product of '90s movies. I grew up watching '90s films and wanted to become an actor because that was the phase of cinema I enjoyed.

When you see the phase of 60s and 70s, the craze for Dev Anand and actors of that era, it still exists in south. The craze is huge but that's also for stars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal, especially for male stars.

I wrote 'Me and Ma' to celebrate a beautiful phase of my life with people.

My golden phase was unarguably between the 90s and 2000s.

At every phase in our life, we make memories that we cherish all our lives.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

But I must tell you that dancing to 'Aapke Aa Jaane Se' from 'Khudgarz' was phenomenal.

It's a phenomenon how 'Grease' is so popular; it really is.

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

I was a huge fan of Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, obviously Phil Hartman, and a very young Adam Sandler.

I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.

I love Jerry Lewis. I loved Jim Carrey when I was younger, and Mike Myers and Phil Hartman, all the 'Saturday Night Live' people in the late '80s.

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.

So why am I an A's fan? Because, from 1901 to 1954, they were the Philadelphia Athletics. Philadelphia is my home town. The A's were the team I loved as a kid, and no gap of space or time can fray that bond.

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.

I grew up in Philadelphia.

I love Air Force Ones. That's the shoe I grew up with in Philadelphia. My older brothers got me wearing them and I just stuck with them. Everyone in the neighborhood used to wear them. It's retro. It's tradition. That's me, old school.

I love revisiting, actually. I went back to the Philippines. I've done three films in the Philippines.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.

I haven't left the Philippines for many years, I haven't been in the U.S. for six years.

I remember performing one-man reenactments of Miss Saigon' for my grandmother on her fireplace or dancing to Gwen Stefani in our hotel in the Philippines.

I actually quite miss being called Philippines because in the pageant it's normal for us to be called our country instead of our names. If somebody goes, 'Philippines!' I turn my head and I know that's me. Now they go 'Pia' or 'Miss Universe.' Of course that's better. But I also miss that, being called my country.

Philly is old-school.