Billy Connolly Quotes

Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.

1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

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.

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.

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

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

I used to love the '20s.

There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.

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.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

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

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

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

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.

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.

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

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

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

The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.