Quotes About Nostalgia

Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.

My daughter, Jennifer Grey, was in 'Dirty Dancing,' which was shot in the Catskill Mountains, where the great old Jewish entertainers used to appear. It was the first time she'd been to the Borscht Belt, and I don't think she's been back since.

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.

I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with my kids.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

My parents had a long and eventful marriage and were always a bit like movie stars to me when they were young.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I still think I'm playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That's why I love the game, and mostly, I don't pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that's out there.