The '80s were a lost decade.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

— Marianne Williamson

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

— Chris Hardwick

My 20s were a lost decade. I didn't do much of anything.

— Kem Nunn

I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and…

— Gaby Hoffmann

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had…

— Meg White

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they…

— Deborah Ellis

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball…

— Abel Ferrara

When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

— David Schwimmer

“The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger…

— Mitch Albom

I'm a product of the 1970s.

— Steve Rushin

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

— Eric Andre

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

— Eric Allin Cornell

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

— Harold Pinter

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that…

— Jane Kaczmarek

It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people…

— Laura Prepon