No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.
In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.
Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the old days when drag was fun, not personal.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.
In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.
