Christopher Timothy Quotes

I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.

It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

I am a product of the 1950s.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Birdie,' a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n' roll to small-town America.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

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

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

The world loves the 1950s.

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

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

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.

The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.

I've been an actor for so long, and a moviegoer ever since I can remember, because the country that I grew up in didn't have television.