Quotes About Memory

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

Is it possible to reproduce, later in life, the impact that books, records, and films have between the ages of fourteen and seventeen? The periods of my adult life that have been most miserable have been those in which I lost fidelity to what I discovered then.

One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.

I grew up when Chris Brown was, like, an icon. He was my ringtone when I was in high school.

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

Freddie Prinze was my idol, and he died, and there is not much of his stuff to look at. But now, your comedy can live on forever.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Probably about 10 years ago or so I told my grandmother that I always wanted to make a record of hymns if I could ever make a career of all of this. She kind of held me to it. She passed away in 1999. I just never forgot it.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

There are certain images that always haunt me.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

I used to have imaginary friends.

People see me, and they think they went to college with me; there's no immediate identification.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

Films make an actor immortal.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

You can't impose a legacy.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.