Judith Jamison Quotes

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

I used to love the '20s.

I am embarrassingly 1920s in style.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning.

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view.

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

The first paid gig? It was back home in Terre Haute, Indiana, back in 1925, '26, when I was going to high school and working in a speakeasy.

Jazz in the 1920s and '30s was dance music, teenage music for parties, for being wild and young. There's this punk feeling I really love. It was something so radical and different and new and not codified. People didn't have a definition of what they were doing.

I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory.