Gemma Arterton Quotes

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

I like being in the '60s.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.

I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I was very, very lucky to spend my youth during the '60s.

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.

I've always been fascinated with the '60s in general.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.