80s Quotes
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80s Quotes & Sayings
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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'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
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
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
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
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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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
I wanted a Blaine but ended up with a Duckie.
— Ashley Edward Miller
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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— Steven Howlett
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
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
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
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
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
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
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