Quotes About Classic

I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.

It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.

When I was nursing my son, you're up all the time during the first year, and you're sort of brain dead. So I'd find myself watching Turner Classic Movies at odd hours.

When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.

'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic.

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'

I want to be a part of films that will be watched even after twenty years.

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me, loves diamonds & wants a wireless.

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Daphne Du Maurier and Anya Seton, all of Mary Stewart's early books, along with Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney

I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.

That is what I love about golf, you can go play somewhere where all the greats have played.

A good song never gets old.

Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni' is a cult classic and also one of my favourite songs from a Yash Chopra movie. The song is about never giving up on one's love and I connected instantly with it when I first heard it.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.