80s Quote by Michael Weatherly

Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.

— Debbie Reynolds

“My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. ‘Since when have you liked Wagner?”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum…

— John Varley

If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have Al Feldstein…

— Richard Corliss

As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we…

— Chris Hart

I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'

— Lee Radziwill

“Hart and Hope,” I muttered. “If you’re going to name your kids like that, of course they’re going to think they live in a…

— Alyxandra Harvey

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

— Zubin Mehta

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off…

— Stephen Dobyns

My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I…

— Joel Grey

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton