22 Movie Quotes about Retro (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 4, 2026

Memorable quotes about retro, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 This velvet painting of Elvis? I didn't really want it, but I own it.

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

2 Nice going, boys. You're playing yesterday's tape.

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

3 She'll be fine. Let's get her back to 1985, and then I'm gonna destroy the time machine.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II

4 Hmm. Sounds like an idea whose time has passed.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 Oh, my God! -What? -You're from the '60s. -Well, yeah actually... -Out! Hey! Back to the '60s. No place for you here in the future. Get back while you still can!

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)

6 The gamers say we're retro, which I think means old, but cool.

John C. Reilly as Wreck It Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph

7 Ew. Get your retro space stuff out of my area.

Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie (2014)

8 Get yourself a phonograph, jughead.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

9 Get yourself some '50s clothes. -Check, Doc.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II

10 A new Piglet? But I'd rather have the old one instead.

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh