The 50s Quotes
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
— Peter O'Toole
I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.
— Peter Hook
The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
— Johnny Rivers
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
— Kenneth Noland
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Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world - Los Angeles in the '50s - they made perfect sense.
— Wanda Coleman
I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.
— Bethany Cosentino
The first time I went to Fenway Park was probably 1950. It was the early '50s, and it was my father taking me to the game.
— Mike Barnicle
Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did ... And he did it in the 50s!
— Yony Leyser
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
— Zooey Deschanel
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
— Christian Lacroix
The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!
— Elisha Cuthbert
The 50s were great because I collected stamps.
— Robert Plant
The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.
— Olivia Palermo
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
— Robert M. Parker Jr.
The mood of the '50s is like today.
— Nancy Peters
Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.
— Chris Hardwick
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
— Fran Lebowitz
It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.
— John Leguizamo
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
— Christian Lacroix
My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.
— Michael Moriarty
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
— Joe Pantoliano
I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.
— John Lasseter
If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.
— Caroline Leavitt
It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.
— Frankie Avalon
I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s ... Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?
— Courteney Cox
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
— Ian McKellen
Mad Men - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.
— Geoffrey Gray
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
— Elizabeth McGovern
Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.
— William Devane
I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
— Jane Fonda
They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't.
— Richard Lloyd
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
— Gene Luen Yang
I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?
— Marc Almond
I just dress like ... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.
— Amy Winehouse
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
— Quincy Jones
The '50s and the '70s are sort of similar in that they're both times of major paranoia in America.
— Noah Hawley
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
— M. Stanton Evans
Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, but no one would talk about it.
— Greg Brenneman
Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
— Maxwell Caulfield
I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.
— Sebastian Stan
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
— Katie Findlay
Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.
— Kim Cattrall
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
— Robert Quine
The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.
— Vy Higginsen
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
— A. Scott Berg
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.
— Keith Waterhouse
I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
— Charles Manson
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.
— Noam Chomsky
Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
— Kim Cattrall
I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.
— Edward Herrmann
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
— David Strathairn
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
— Anthony Kiedis
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
— Morton Feldman
I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
— Luc Ferrari
I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution ...
— Evo Morales
During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
— Gore Vidal
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
— Bill Condon
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.
— Robert Gottlieb
I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
— Lynne Reid Banks
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.
— Bethany Cosentino
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
— Dan Aykroyd
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
— Tennessee Williams
Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.
— Matthew Ashford
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
— Annette Funicello
Sexually? Your late 40s and 50s? The bomb!
— Sheryl Underwood
Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope.
— Tuli Kupferberg
I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I am partial to a cartwheel or two. It's the way to go; I'll be doing them in my 50s, hopefully.
— Donna Air
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I like a lot of French literature, everything that was published like in the 40s and 50s. I like a lot of that.
— Robert Pattinson
I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.
— Steve Jones
