Best Eighties Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“There were a lot of Indonesian films made in the Seventies and Eighties that had silat and karate built into them, but most had these mystical elements. People jumping into trees and turning into jaguars, that kind of thing. They were fun movies but not great movies.”

“I did feel a bit of an outsider in the Eighties. But there was a market for me out there. New Romantics were totally different.”

“We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.”

“Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where we are. It's all pretty similar reasons why they're big.”

“Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.”

“I listen to a lot of Eighties hip-hop. I listened to a lot of Ice-T.”

“We were teens in the Eighties, and that's the kind of music that we all grew up on. When you're in those really formative years, from, like, 13 to 19, what you listen to is so influential, and I think that's just part of our being now.”

“Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.”

“I would love to work into my eighties. I don't want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.”

“I spent most of the Seventies living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and most of the Eighties living in Stoke-on-Trent.”

“I love Eighties rock.”

“In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.”

“I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.”

“We love Eighties music.”

“I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.”

“I loved those movies from the eighties, movies like 'Working Girl,' 'Nine to Five,' 'Outrageous Fortune,' 'The Heat,' 'Bridesmaids,' 'Pitch Perfect,' and others.”

“Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn't really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away.”

“I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.”

“Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.”

“My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.”

“I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.”

“I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.”

“The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.”

“And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.”

“I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.”

“If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.”

“What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.”

“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.”

“Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch 'The Neverending Story,' 'Labyrinth,' and 'Legend' over and over again. Also, 'Willow' and 'The Goonies.'”

“I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.”

“In the late eighties, we decided to rework the 1979 hit 'El Lute' and name it 'Mandela.'”

“In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.”

“When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'”

“Much of the stuff I relate to is from the Eighties, at least cinematically.”

“I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.”

“I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.”

“I think there's a way to do classic songs and produce them electronically, and I feel like the eighties did a lot of that.”

“I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.”

“During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.”

“Italian football in the eighties and nineties was the most beautiful league in the world. The hardest, most beautiful of all.”

“I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.”

“There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can shout and dance. The best of the Eighties was club church.”

“I've got an old Volvo from the eighties.”

“Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.”

“I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.”

“I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.”

“My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.”

“'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.”

“When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.”

“We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.”

“New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.”

“Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.”

“Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.”

“Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.”