Quotes About Memory

There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.

I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.

My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter.

A lot of people will refer to comics by number to me, and I'll realize they're expecting me to remember all the comics by number. And I can't even remember what I ate this morning, let alone which comic was #473!

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.

9/11 absolutely happened.

My missus says I can never remember anything as a kid. I always say, I put a line through anything that happened back then.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

The war made me stronger; it was a very hard time for me and my family. I don't want to drag that with me forever, but I don't want to forget about it, either.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

I can't really remember my first headline show.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

I am also lucky that I can forget about any character I do within 24 hours. I can laugh heartily within minutes of doing a crying scene.

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

My first love was Heath Ledger.