80s Quotes

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

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

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

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.

For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s

I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.

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

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered.

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

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

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

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

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

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

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.