Quotes About Memory

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

If people remember me for any scene in a Lars von Trier film, I'm extremely honoured and forever grateful.

I have always had a longing to talk about this Nazi period because my parents' generation wouldn't talk about it after the war at all. From an actor's point of view, it's amazing to play in one year the Nazi Albert Speer and Claus von Stauffenberg.

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.

It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

I cannot forget the day when I gave the first screen test of my life. The film was Gulshan Rai's 'Trishul' and I was selected. I was just 16.

I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

Memory warps and stretches and shifts to fit the strictures of your life.

I remember walking in and seeing Patrick. I knew he was going to be in the room, but somehow, it was still shocking. I was like, you look like Patrick Stewart, because it is you!

Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.

People's memories are quite short. Often people think they recognize me from down the shops or something.

The very first picture that I did, the director came up to me on the street - I was 14 at the time - and asked me if I would be in a short film that he was doing called 'Pigen og Skoene,' which means 'The Girl with the Shoes,' which is a funny title but that is how it is.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.