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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

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

When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant. — Beck

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 truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall. — Jose Ferrer

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s. — Matthew Bourne

I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own. — Mika.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. — Eli Roth

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

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims. — Agnes Varda

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s. — Chris Abani

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

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. — Claire Denis

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

Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books. — Jok Church

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

If you go back to the '50s and '60s ... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley ... and it crept northward in early 2000s. — Mitch Kapor

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 '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful. — Chris Isaak

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience. — Iman

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

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway. — Bob Gunton

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've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s. — Thom Browne

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day. — Helen Reddy

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

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. — Sara Sheridan

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

In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act. — Eartha Kitt

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters. — Nancy Pelosi

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

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

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise. — Lucio Tan

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff. — Donald Byrd

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

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS. — Robert Klein

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

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger. — Dr. John

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

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns. — Gil Kane

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. — Tariq Ali

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

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. — Paul Kantner

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

I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around. — Elle Fanning