Quotes About Nostalgia

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.'

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

My heart is in the Premier League. I can honestly say that when you've played there, your heart stays there even if you are physically elsewhere.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

As a child, I used to steal Indian film magazines.

I would steal a lot of saris from my nani's cupboard.

For Mothers Day, we always gave mom a perfume and on Fathers Day, we gave dad a pen. Funnily, every year, we used to steal it from their drawer and give it back every year.

If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the original 'Steel Magnolias' with Dolly Parton and Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

I still have my first 'Black Lightning' that I got way back in the day, and my first 'Steel.' And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.

There's so many stories to tell in Hollywood in the Golden Age that stems from truth.

I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

My stepfather was a country music fan, and I grew up on a horse farm, so the older country, that's what he listened to.

My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.

I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s.