Michael Aspel Quotes

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

'Spring Day' - I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.

I lived in Bologna. I go back quite often, and I still have lots of connections and lots of friends. It was a nice period in my life.

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally different from your own. That used to be inevitable. If that goes away because everything's so convenient, everything's brought to you, well, then there goes one of my favorite parts of life, and something that I've gone out of my way to court.

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.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

John Logan was kind of wrapping up - "Well, thanks for coming in..." - and I thought, "Oh, God, this is over and I'm out of here, and I really don't want to leave."So I said, "Can I ask you a question?" He said, "Sure." "What movie do you think you've seen more than any other movie?" And he said, "Wow, let me think about that. I guess probably The Searchers." And I said, "Well, oddly, that's the movie I've seen more than any other movie." And I wasn't just BS-ing. It's true. It's my favorite movie.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

Old friends are memories personified.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.