Akshay Kumar Quotes

I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.

My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obsessed with the mid '60s era, even '70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.

I am more vintage than I am high fashion.

I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old everything looks! I am the age of baby Eugene.

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in the actual locations.

I feel like I was supposed to be born in the '90s. Everything from that era needs to come back.

The 80s was an outstanding era.

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

I remember when I wore UFO raver jeans in the 90s. Or my JNCOs! I miss my JNCOs.

I used to sock hop to 'Crocodile Rock' and stare at those platform boots on the album cover.

I was a huge 'Mad Men' fan.

The '80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other '80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.

I made my statement... I had my foot in the '90s.

Interestingly, when I look at pictures of me when I was five or six years old, I think I look pretty stylish.

A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that's because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear.

I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.

When it comes to the '90s, there's nothing I want to repeat.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

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

Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.