Forgetfulness quotes

“I've just been down the gullet of an interstellar cockroach. That's one of a hundred memories I don't want.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Cowboy #1: What's your name?
- Pee-wee Herman: I can't remember.
- Cowboy #2: Where are you from?
- Pee-wee Herman: I can't remember.
- Cowboy #1: Can you remember anything?
- Pee-wee Herman: I remember... the Alamo.
[Texans cheer]”

John O'Neill - Cowboy #1
Paul Reubens - Pee-wee Herman
Alex Sharp - Cowboy #2

Don't you hate it when you get so dadgum drunk, you look in your pocket the next day and there's some girl's number with a name and you don't know nothing about it? So you call her up and you hear this, "Hello?" "Yeah, is Debbie there?" "This is Debbie." "I ain't drinkin' no more".
Larry the Cable Guy - Himself

“No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

Natalie Portman - Evey

“George Amberson Minafer had got his comeuppance. He'd got it three times filled and running over. But those who had longed for it were not there to see it. And they never knew it, those who were still living had forgotten all about it, and all about him.”
Orson Welles - Narrator

“I forgot the other boy. Oh, what's his name? Oh, well, God bless What's-his-name.”

Julie Andrews - Maria

“Word in the ether was you'd lost your memory.”

Marton Csokas - Jarda

“- Luce: Don't forget me.
- Rachel: I won't remember anything else.”
Lena Headey - Luce
Piper Perabo - Rachel

“- Count Adhemar: And you are?
- William Thatcher: Well, I am, um.
- Count Adhemar: You've forgotten, or your name is Sir Um?
- William Thatcher: Ulrich von Lichtenstein from Gelderland.
- Count Adhemar: Well, I'd forget as well, what a mouthful.”
Rufus Sewell - Count Adhemar
Shannyn Sossamon - William Thatcher

“- Kay: Searching for a handle on the moment? I can't help you. The only comfort I can offer... is my promise that tomorrow morning you won't remember a thing.
- Jay: That's not exactly some shit you just forget.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“When I got back from Spain, I got into accounting. I figured I could hide behind a desk. I looked down, and I didn't so much as look up for a whole year. When I finally did, people weren't staring at me anymore. I guess they kind of forgot about it.”

Kevin Bacon - Jack Morris

“When I say I don't remember that day, I'm not lying. I wish I did, but I just don't. Sometimes the most important stuff goes away. Goes away so bad it's like it was never there to begin with.”
Ryan Gosling - Leland P. Fitzgerald

“- Tom Marshall: So you're saying you lost the map? You don't have it?
- Jerry Conlaine: No, I'm saying I forgot to hold on to it while my ass was free-falling over a 100 foot waterfall.
- Tom Marshall: So you don't have it?”
Dax Shepard - Tom Marshall
Matthew Lillard - Jerry Conlaine

“- Doctor at Hospital: Now, Miss X... we have a safer, more comfortable, private room... where you'll be a lot more comfortable, and we'll all be a lot safer.
- Joanna: Well, I'm glad you've finally come to your senses. I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.”

Marvin Braverman - Doctor at Hospital
Goldie Hawn - Joanna

“- Theresa Osborne: You'll just forget about me, right?
- Garret Blake: Every day.”
Robin Wright - Theresa
Kevin Costner - Garret

“- Kirk Lawrence: You've been awfully kind. I'll never forget you.
- Tira: No one ever does.”
Kent Taylor - Kirk Lawrence
Mae West - Tira

“The best way to get over a man is to get under a new one.”
Charlie Sheen - Ryan Edward Turner

“I'm out of your life. Drowned. Forgotten. You found a new love. That makes me an unwanted corpse at a party. I'll go.”

Fred MacMurray - Bill Cardew

“We'll forget about it, if you'll remember that there's only one man that means anything to me. And that's Tarzan.”

Maureen O'Sullivan - Jane

“- Dan Packard: Remember what I told you last week?
- Kitty Packard: I don't remember what you told me a minute ago.”
Wallace Beery - Dan Packard
Jean Harlow - Kitty Packard

“That car meant a lot to me, Gus. I get memories of that car I can't even remember.”

Joe Pesci - Joe Waters

“- Blade: I'm not human.
- Karen: You look human to me.
- Blade: Humans don't drink blood.
- Karen: That was a long time ago. Maybe you should let that go?
- Blade: I have spent my whole life lookin' for that thing that killed my mother, and made me what I am. And every time I take one of those monsters out, I get a little piece of that life...” (continue)(continue reading)
Wesley Snipes - Blade
N'Bushe Wright - Karen

“Hell, at my age, you learn a new name you gotta forget an old one.”
Gordon Tootoosis - Wesley Birdsong

“Memory... strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago.”

Roddy McDowall - Huw

“- Dr. Mainheimer: You're thinking about him again, aren't you? What was his name? Frank?
- Jane Spencer: Yes.
- Dr. Mainheimer: You just can't forget him, can you?
- Jane Spencer: Who?
- Dr. Mainheimer: Frank!”
Richard Griffiths - Dr. Meinheimer
Priscilla Presley - Jane Spencer