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Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious. — Rick Moranis

The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories. — Mike Thibault

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A. — Christopher Hampton

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. — Joe E. Lewis

I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s. — Patrick Wilson

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans. — Jason Segel

It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come. — Mike Scheidt

I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it's cute. — T.S. Krupa

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot. — Drew Barrymore

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions.It's really cool. — Lewis Black

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. — Patti Smith

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. — Geezer Butler

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her. — Akeem Ayers

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre. — William Kircher

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world. — George Michael

In the '70s it was skateboards, in the '80s it was drugs, in the '90s it was art, and now it's my family. — Anthony

Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him into the pop culture. — Geoff Johns

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important. — Les Wexner

Apparently, during the '80s, nobody really dressed like Madonna except for Madonna. — Gwen Hayes

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent. — Jay McInerney

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s. — Neil Tennant

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV! — Clemence Poesy

I love '80s movies. — Josh Peck

We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans. — Libba Bray

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time. — John Cusack

I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again. — Ann Wilson

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy. — Baz Luhrmann

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.' — Tahar Rahim

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era. — Sam De Jong

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school. — Thomas Haden Church

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something. — Sarah Silverman

In the '80s, everything became too serious. — Elsa Peretti

I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff. — Zooey Deschanel

It's like, God, I'm in my 80s. Nobody, when I die, is going to say, 'How young?' They're going to say she had a great ride. — Joan Rivers

My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it. — Warren Spector

I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s. — Ariel Rechtshaid

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it. — Michael Buble

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I don't understand leggings. They were the worst trend of the '80s. — Jason Earles

Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids. — Dorian Yates

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. — Jessica Pare

It's a wedding reception, Morrie, not a fuckin' '80s flashback. — Kristen Ashley

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents. — Julianne Hough

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. — Paul Kantner

I wanted a Blaine but ended up with a Duckie. — Ashley Edward Miller

Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience. — Travie McCoy

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s. — John Lasseter

I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over. — Rob Lowe

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me. — Al Yankovic

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur. — Manolo Blahnik

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets. — Warren Ellis

Sugar was an issue in the '80s, so you would see low-sugar products; fat was an issue in the '90s, so you'd see low-fat products. — Michael Moss

When I think of Bollywood dance, I think of choreographies from the '70s and '80s. That was true Bollywood, what is now known as old school Bollywood. — Terence Lewis

I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s. — Chris McCaughan

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi. — Jemaine Clement

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I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything. — Hermann E. Ott

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. — Ron Wood

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. — Yann Tiersen

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. — Harvey Pekar

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song. — Martin Gore

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies. — Jello Biafra

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music. — Jeffrey Tucker

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s. — Bruce Springsteen

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category. — Brendan O'Carroll

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s. — Johnny Depp

VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes. — Debbi Peterson

If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention. — James Lileks

The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. — Joe Bastardi

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. — Nicolas Winding Refn

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating. — Paul Merton

I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy. — Chloe Sevigny

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine. — Shawn Amos

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff. — Chris Hardwick

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up! — Morrissey

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. — Tom Brokaw

At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway. — Letitia Baldrige

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form. — Stanley Donwood

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan. — Nigel Kneale

Back in the '80s and '90s, you could hit the quarterback low, you could hit the quarterback high. You could hit him pretty much late. — Vinny Testaverde

I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old. — Matt Emmons

I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's. — George Carlin

Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s. — Joe Flaherty

The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work. — Christian Slater

I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video. — Jodi Benson

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome! — John Oates

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s. — Lee Majors

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself. — Scott Ian

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca. — Raquel Cepeda

When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program. — Tatiana De Rosnay

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s. — Paul Weller

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s. — Griffin Dunne

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be. — Vincent Kartheiser

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period. — Dan Fogler

I was a child of the '80s. — Rob Lowe

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world ... Eminem. Rap's a black thing. — Chubby Checker

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s. — Cherie Lunghi

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes. — Jonah Hill