Memorabilia Quotes

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy.

I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

I've always been a collector at heart.

I keep Polaroids in my wallet of me and my friends.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

I have this routine where on Fridays I sign balls that need to be autographed. One time, after my fortieth or fiftieth ball, I looked over at my secretary and said, 'Who is Bob Stoops, anyway?'

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

He seemed like such a nice old gentleman—I gave him my autograph as a souvenir.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.