80s Quotes

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out".

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.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

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.

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

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

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.

There's a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We're all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late '80s. As if desire is not a good thing.

Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, [but] those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality.

The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

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.

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.

I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.

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.

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

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

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

Even when I did Ryan Gosling's movie (Lost River), we had a very '80s kind of vibe and I would say for two or three months after that, I was dressing in a very sort of '80s way.

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

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

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.

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!

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

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