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Quotes About Nostalgia

I was such a 'Star Wars' fan. That was my generation.
~ Phil LaMarr
My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.'
~ Harry Knowles
My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.
~ Nick Frost
The main stuff I like is from the late '60s to the early '90s. That's the stuff I love. It's the James Cameron's and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, 'Star Wars' had an influence.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Growing up, we used to watch a lot of 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and wear hand-me-down jeans and jumpers. I wasn't really one for dresses.
~ Kimberley Nixon
I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.
~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.
I grew up with 'Star Wars' and was a massive fan of the original films.
~ Andy Serkis
I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.
~ Evan Daugherty
When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.
~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.
I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future.
~ Greg van Eekhout
I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
~ J. August Richards
I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid.
~ Colin Trevorrow
The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
I loved 'Star Wars'. I had the toys.
~ Russell Tovey
I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.
~ Ian Doescher
Are you kidding? They had me at 'Star Wars.' The kid inside me would've clawed his way out and strangled me if I'd turned this job down.
~ Jason Aaron
I grew up with 'Star Wars,' not 'Star Trek.'
~ Rony Abovitz
'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
~ Katee Sackhoff
My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
~ Duncan Jones
I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
~ Duncan Jones
For some reason, I skipped the original 'Star Wars.' I don't know why, and I'm very embarrassed.
~ Tom Holland
Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer.
~ David Benioff