Top 33 Throwback Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Throwback Quotes from famous people such as Ethan Hawke, Annie Jacobsen, Channing Dungey, Enzo Amore, Ariana Grande, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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It’s difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn’t matter if you’re talking vampire movies or ‘Dawn of the Dead’ or ‘The Thing’ or ‘Escape From New York.’ Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
Ethan Hawke
In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.
Annie Jacobsen
We are committed to getting our content to our audience in as many ways as possible. We are very excited about our partnerships.. and we relaunched our ABC app, which is going to be a great place and opportunity for our audience to find our shows in addition to throwback content and new ABC digital originals.
Channing Dungey
I have tattooed on my hand the silver throwback mics from back in the day. My father used to have one of those when he’d lead people at the YMCA doing the cha-cha slide.
Enzo Amore
My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro ’50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.
Ariana Grande
I enjoy watching Chris Matthews a lot. He reminds me of a throwback to the older school kind of pundits like Tim Russert.
John Rzeznik
I like when people have Western style, but it’s throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
Kacey Musgraves
Signing up for ‘It Follows,’ I didn’t have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.
Maika Monroe
My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something, and ’36 Chambers’ was one of them. It was on from then.
Amanda Seales
‘Death Sentence’ really is a throwback to the ’70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It’s like a contemporary ‘Death Wish’ with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of ’70s films like ‘The French Connection.’
James Wan
I have a home phone number, and I like it! It’s like a throwback already.
Spike Jonze
Amazingly, I’ve been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I’ve been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
Jewel
Just look at herbal remedies. It’s essentially a throwback. It’s saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it’s going to cure what ails you. And that’s the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.
Marcia Angell
Midsomer’ is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.
John Nettles
Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I’m a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic – they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
Michael Madsen
I don’t think Ed Miliband has the courage of his convictions. He’s scared he’ll be painted by the rightwing press as a throwback to the time of the ‘big state.’
Caroline Lucas
A lot of it came from seeing how kids responded to the character. They would dress up and some would reenact the sketch in its entirety and it got us thinking about those Halloween specials we’d see on TV as a kid, and we just thought ‘David Pumpkins’ would work perfect for sort of a throwback nostalgic Halloween special.
Mikey Day
I’m tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
L. Neil Smith
Lauryn Hill’s always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who’s been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.
Judith Hill
The great thing for me about ‘The Resurrection of Gavin Stone’ is it’s a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn’t call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
D. B. Sweeney
The Giant Swing is a throwback. I used it prior to WWE quite a bit. One of the days, I thought about bringing it back. It connected with the crowd. I’ve been doing it ever since.
Cesaro
Monster Mash’ is one of those great, throwback Halloween songs.
Sharon Needles
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
P. J. O’Rourke
To me, throwback means I’m a smart player. I know how to play the game. I’m very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don’t do.
Kevin Love
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
Damian Marley
The Meatbats are a throwback band.
Chad Smith
J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.
Steven Cojocaru
Each time I think I’ve created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
Wole Soyinka
‘Mojave’ is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
Oscar Isaac
The society in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
Margaret Atwood
The metamorphosis of people is so interesting. I guess that’s why everybody loves before and afters, throwback Thursdays, and all that kind of thing.
Lynn Whitfield
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was – I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
James Stockdale
I’m trying to be a throwback player and only stick with one team.
Jabari Parker