Quotes About Nostalgia

Kids' shows appeal to a fun-loving mentality that I hope all humans, no matter how old they are, have some ability to relate to.

As for my favorite games growing up, if I were to mention a game other than 'Gradius', it would have to be 'Xevious'.

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to come. They've all been mentioned.

The older Mercedes is absolutely beautiful. It's got that lovely purring feeling as the engine ticks over, which you just don't get in a modern car.

I stand by 'I'm not going to do 'The Office' again.' That would be weird: all the same people sitting at the same desks at a paper merchant's in Slough.

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

I remember being mesmerized by 'Love in the Afternoon,' with Gary Cooper.

I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever have on telly.'You know what the innocence and freedom we got on that show you don't get anywhere else. We could just mess about.

When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

In fact, I still get messages for my mom's performance in 'Nadiya Ke Paar' as Rajjo.

When I first met Hef, I was a co-ed at UCLA.

Nora Ephron's 'When Harry Met Sally' is a classic.

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

I grew up an '80s metal guy.

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it really excites me personally.

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.