Forgetfulness quotes

“- Vera Cicero: If he came in here right now, he'd kill us both.
- Dixie Dwyer: Forget about him.
- Vera Cicero: Who?”

Diane Lane - Vera Cicero
Richard Tiffany Gere - Dixie Dwyer

“The smell: that's the first thing that hits you, promising everything in exchange for your soul. And the heat. Your shirt is straightaway a rag. You can hardly remember your name, or what you came to escape from.”

Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler

“- Robocop: Murphy had a wife and son. What happened to them?
- Officer Anne Lewis: Well, after the funeral... she moved away.
- Robocop: Where did they go?
- Officer Anne Lewis: She thought you were dead. She started over again.
- Robocop: I can feel them... but I can't remember them.”
Peter Weller - Robocop
Nancy Allen - Officer Anne Lewis

“- Mark Zuckerberg: Do you ever think about the girl?
- Sean Parker: What girl?
- Mark Zuckerberg: The one. The girl in high school who was with the lacrosse thing.
- Sean Parker: No.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Mark Zuckerberg
Justin Timberlake - Sean Parker

Martha. My life is a never ending sewer of maggots like you. You're going to grow old and die in an ugly box with bars at one end and a shitter at the other. In a couple years I won't even remember your name. Just gonna be a case file stamped "closed".
John Travolta - Det. Elmer Robinson

“Excuse me, I was sitting here... when I suddenly forgot who I am! Where I was going! Why I'm sitting here with this... dead fish.”

Alan Bates - John

“- Kitty Berman: Does it ever go away?
- Jake Gittes: What's that?
- Kitty Berman: The past.
- Jake Gittes: Well, I think you have to work real hard at that.”
Meg Tilly - Kitty Berman
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“Forget about it" is, like, if you agree with someone, you know, like "Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass. Forget about it!" But then, if you disagree, like "A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!" You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like, "Minchia! Those peppers! Forget about it!... (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Donnie Brasco

“Marrying my husband was no mistake. I had my reason, only I can't remember what it is.”
Lena Olin - Jadzia

“This isn't about terrorism, it's about justice. It's about reminding you people of something you find politically convenient to forget.”
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way... to get lost... to forget where you came in.”

Shin'ichi Chiba - Hattori Hanzo

“I think I'd remember if I had 3 children...”

“- Mitzuko: Jun, why do you only take pictures of the rooms we stay in and never what we see outside while we travel?
- Jun: Those other things are in my memory. The hotel rooms and the airports are the things I'll forget.”

Yûki Kudô - Mitsuko
Masatoshi Nagase - Jun

“- Seth: Hey Greg, why don't you go piss your pants?
- Greg the Soccer Player: That was like 8 years ago, asshole!
- Seth: People don't forget!”
Jonah Hill - Seth
Dave Franco - Greg the Soccer Player

We don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault cos so many of our people died. And all the mourning's veiled the truth. It's not "lest we forget", it's "lest we remember".

Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“Only problem is, I can't remember what I've forgotten.”

Matthew Lewis - Neville Longbottom

“- Peter Hoskins: What goes into one, Rita? A Long Island Iced Tea?
- Rita Boyle: I'm sorry darling, I've forgotten.
- Peter Hoskins: What, do you have it all written down behind the bar or something?
- Rita Boyle: I'm on vacation.
- Peter Hoskins: So you can't remember a drink recipe for something that I would like to order?
- Rita Boyle: Peter,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alec Baldwin - Peter Hoskins
Meg Ryan - Rita Boyle

“Mortimer, you know all about it and just forget about it. I do think that Aunt Martha and I have the right to our own little secrets.”

Josephine Hull - Abby Brewster

“I thought about what Odell had said about friends, and it makes sense to me. Odell goes to church every Sunday, so he would know. Later on he challenged me to a game of dominoes, now what'd he go and do that for? We got to talking about Texas and fooled around, and drunk almost a quart of whiskey, and I forgot all about Daphne Monet, DeWitt...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denzel Washington - Easy Rawlins

“- Jennifer Lyons: Will you forget me?
- Matthew Hollis: The minute I die.”
Michelle Johnson - Jennifer Lyons
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis

“We forgot about the flowers.”
Robby Benson - Nick Peterson

“It is strange that you do not remember any of your poetry, William Blake.”

Gary Farmer - Nobody

“I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.”
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn

“I don't know the number to, uh, my savings account because believe it or not I don't spend my entire day sitting around trying to memorize the fucking numbers to my fucking bank accounts!”
John Malkovich - Osborne Cox

“Ginko biloba. Helps my memory, and I forget what else.”
Billy Crystal - Ben Sobel