Quotes About 80s Movies

#1. I love '80s movies.

Josh Peck

#2. I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.

Lauren Weisberger

#3. 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.

Chuck Klosterman

#4. When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me - I had two brothers - and we used to go in the early '80s and check out these grindhouse movies - a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.

Freddy Rodriguez

#5. I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Jonathan Tropper

#6. I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Poppy Z. Brite

#7. Just like a movie, our lives are simply a series of individual moments, snapshots in time.

Bruce Van Horn

#8. Omally, as ever, slept the sleep of the just, which was quite unjust of him, considering he had no right to do it.

Robert Rankin

#9. Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

John Lydon

#10. It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.

Seneca.

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

Dan Fogler

#12. Every time I thought to, I wrote about you.

Crystal Woods

#13. When you first see MacGruber working on the bomb, in the initial opening credits, that bomb was a replica of the 'Die Hard' bomb. The love runs deep for '80s action movies.

Jorma Taccone

#14. I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

Georgie Fame

#15. The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

Virginia Postrel

#16. People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.

Elisabeth Shue

#17. I don't like the sound of my voice.

Megan Fox

#18. I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.

Eli Roth

#19. Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

Andrea Tantaros

#20. In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

Griffin Dunne

#21. I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s.

Griffin Dunne

#22. There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

Peter Jackson

#23. I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

Ernest Cline

#24. I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

Kenneth C. Griffin

#25. The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

Curtis Armstrong

#26. 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

#27. I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

Hulk Hogan

#28. My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

Patricia Heaton

#29. While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish.

Calvin Coolidge

#30. 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

#31. Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket

Charles Simic

#32. Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the '80s. I don't remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It's THAT mean.

Matt Fraction

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.

Charles Kimbrough

#36. You are only Invulnerable when you are in Fear

Suzanne Letourneau

#37. My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Nora Roberts

#38. The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

Steve Erickson

#39. I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone - they fuelled my childhood. But now I don't think I'd like to do just action, I don't enjoy that.

Channing Tatum

#40. I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#41. None of us deserve God's forgiveness. The Bible says to forgive because God forgave us. It doesn't say anything about deserving it or even asking for it.

Liz Tolsma

#42. I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

Madonna Ciccone