Nostalgic Quotes

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

Sometimes doing an old song is like returning to the text of a play. It`s not invalid, just because it`s old, otherwise nobody would be acting (William Shakespeare)--not to say that everything I do is Shakespeare!. But it`s inevitable that it changes its meaning or impact. That`s why I never really sing anything from a nostalgic point of view, because even if it`s 25 years old, it`s in the moment. That`s the beauty of live performance.

I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we`re seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve-to-twenty-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I`m not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

It`s a tricky character, right on the edge of Uncle Remus. But, I knew how to play him right away. I knew when I read it. I just saw him -- the dignity in the character. The only time I ever worried about it was when I was doing the show Off-Broadway, and all these Southerners would come back wiping their eyes and talking about how nostalgic it made them feel. How their grandmother had a chauffeur just like that. I was like, `God damn it! I made these people nostalgic for the good ol` days!` But, then, I had some black friends see it, and they said, `Oh, my grandfather was exactly like that.` So that made me feel okay. - On the character of Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

There`s something about the sound of a train that`s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

Paramount wanted a sex thing on Enterprise. And a nostalgic feel, like a return to the real old show. It was enough to have one neurotic Star Trek!

People say, oh it`s a shame, you`re not nostalgic about the `60s. Well actually, it`s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn`t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

What we see is what they`re trying to sell us. It`s not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it`s less expensive than new material.

I think that I recall the nostalgic `50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

I`ve got to deliver something to them that`s contemporary but at the same time doesn`t trample on their nostalgic dreams.

At least the kids are trying, scratching away, although they don`t quite have it. It`s like watching a cartoon, but it`s nostalgic. They`re trying. ... all the clear-cutting of babies.

You basically connect to shows that are meaningful to you and will be nostalgic to you for the rest of your life.

(CHEBOYGAN - Sharon Thompson says it had nothing to do with the past Labor Day weekend, really, the fact that she came across the nostalgic poster advertising Cheboygan`s 1907 Labor Day festivities.) We were just doing an inventory of all the items in the museum, ... I`d seen this poster before, but really reading it in detail it`s amazing what went on here back then.

I`ll be nostalgic when they form the A,

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970's, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.