Randy Newman Quotes

I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

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

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

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.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

I have great memories.

Look back, and smile on perils past.