Quotes About Memory

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.

If you told me I was at number 34 Blake Street, I'd immediately think 'double 17.' If I was at number 37, I'd think 'five, double 16.'

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

Sept. 11, 2001, still feels like a blur to me. I wish it were simply a bad, re-occurring dream, but unfortunately it isn't.

Having all that experience, and that success as well, at a Paralympics was just amazing but I don't really remember much from Beijing, it was quite a blur.

I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.

I know all the words to 'I'm on a Boat.'

As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

My maternal grandmother, Rose, was as tough as an old boot - she knew her own mind. She was the first person I lost in my life whom I was really close to. I loved and looked up to her and respected her.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her Boss' with Melvyn Douglas.

I bought a girl roses once.

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

I want to leave this sport with a little bit of my brains left.

To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was.

The first goal I scored for Brazil will live with me forever.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.