Quotes About Memory

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

No one can remember more than three points.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

Coach's voice will never leave my head as long as I live.

The collective memory of America is short.

When you go to college, and you talk about your college experience, there's a lot of revisionist history that goes along with it. You tend to think of yourself as, 'Oh, I got all of the girls. I was the best athlete on the team. I was a straight-A student.' And that's probably not the case.

I was born in 1999, just a few months after 13 people were left dead after a shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

I just want to complete my legacy.

My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.

It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because I was so young, I didn't completely understand the concept of death.

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.