Quotes About Memory

I'm just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I've told it already.

It's so nice to run into people even now who - if I'm out, a couple of times a week, somebody comes up to me and says, 'I just loved you in '50 First Dates.' That movie is my favorite movie. I just watched it last night.' In my head, I'm always thinking, 'You're kidding me. I never watch anything twice.'

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

People forget what they want to forget.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.