Paul Simon Quotes

There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?

I think one of the reasons 'The Karate Kid' film has stood the test of time, aside from 'Get him a body bag,' 'Sweep the leg,' catching flies with chopsticks, all of that stuff that's become pop culture, is that it worked on a human level.

In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Born,' and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, 'What's 'A Star is Born?'

Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.

It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'

I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.

I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.

'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much as I could quote lines from 'The Searchers'.

'The Wood' was sort of like 'American Graffiti' for me in a lot of different ways.

I was a giant fan of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' in high school, and I was obsessed with Jim Carrey and cut out any picture of Jim Carrey that ever came in any kind of magazine. I put it all over my walls. At the time, I thought humor was just repeating lines from 'Ace Ventura' ad nauseum in the back of my advanced math class.

I'm not just a Sixties act.

Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

I just always thought 'Groundhog Day' was potentially a great idea.

'I Think We're Alone Now' just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that?

Growing up in the Sixties, whether it was the Batmobile or the costumes Porter Wagoner wore or the music that came from there, California was the home of what a friend of mine calls 'custom culture.' It seemed like the promised land.

Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.

The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it.

You have to remember: I grew up in the 1950s, the era of cowboy movies and rock 'n' roll.

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

No matter if you like it or not, you could hate Drake, he always says stuff that everybody can relate to. Facts.