Memory quotes

“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

“- Peter Banning: I remember you being a lot bigger.
- Captain Hook: To a ten year-old I'm huge.”
Robin Williams - Peter Banning
Dustin Hoffman - Peter Banning

“All right, fellas... let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could.”

Pat O'Brien - Father Jerry

“You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions, not his memory.”
Marshall Bell - Kuato

“There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and it is gone, and I see it as it was when I was a boy.”
Roddy McDowall - Huw

“You shouldn't hang me on a hook, Johnny. My father hung me on a hook once, once.”
Joe Piscopo - Danny Vermin

“Look at that park down there! Just think of how many loves lost and found, how many first kisses kissed, how many Frisbees lost and just remember that is your park my friend and you've got your whole life to walk though it.”

Zak Orth - Monk Jablonski

“In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.”
Harry Connick Jr. - Narrator

“- David Dunn: Don't you think that's kind of weird, not remembering one cold or a fever or a sore throat? What do you think it means?
- Audrey Dunn: Um... I think it means probably too tired to remember.”
Bruce Willis - David Dunn
Robin Wright - Audrey Dunn

“Stay in this business long enough and every street leads to a place you'd like to forget, every case brings back memories of what you should have done and what might have been, and every skirt reminds you of another woman... or, if you've got it bad enough, the same woman.”

Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Adele Invergordon: Was there something about me that you particularly missed? Something that I can feel gratified about depriving you all these years?
- Rannulph Junuh: I liked the way we danced.”
Charlize Theron - Adele Invergordon
Matt Damon - Rannulph Junuh

“- Ed: Do you own a video camera?
- Renee Madison: No. Fred hates them.
- Fred Madison: I like to remember things my own way.
- Ed: What do you mean by that?
- Fred Madison: How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.”
Louis Eppolito - Ed
Patricia Arquette - Renee Madison
Bill Pullman - Fred Madison

“One thing about that little cocker, he could remember everybody's name. If he just met 'em. If he met 'em five years ago. He always remembered their name! I admire that. It's a real gift. Really.”

Sidney Miller - Nightclub Owner

“We all forget things. That's what reminding is for.”
Patrick Bergin - Martin Burney

“Dad, why can't I go to ballet class? Teacher said I'm a natural.”

Esai Morales - Sgt. Stern

“- Myron Larabee: I work for the post office so you know I'm not stable! Tell 'em!
- Howard Langston: This man is totally insane.
- Myron Larabee: Thank you!”
Sinbad - Myron Larabee
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Howard Langston

“Wish I could have seen the ballet. I'm sure it would have been a pleasant memory in the trenches.”

Robert Taylor - Roy Cronin

“- Beast: Perhaps she doesn't know how I feel about Christmas.
- Forte: But she does know. She just doesn't care, like I do. She's actually trying to bring Christmas back to the castle. And you know how much we despise Christmas.
- Beast: The day my life ended.”

Robby Benson - Beast
Tim Curry - Forte

“Nick Nitro's battery has run out, but his memory lives on.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“I swear that I'll make people remember you, old man. Remember what you did for us. I'll build a statue if I have to!”

Brad Johnson - Henry Nash

“If your memory was as long as your dick, you'd be in good shape.”
David Paymer - Marty Rossen

“No doubt about it; you've got amnesia.”

Linda Lavin - Kermit's Doctor

“- Jon: This morning he named every member of his fighter squad like it was yesterday.
- Mildred: 1943 he remembers like it was yesterday. It's yesterday he can't remember like it was yesterday.”

Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich
Anne Jackson - Mildred Aldrich

“We'll always have our memories. The Colonel's dead. Here we are still enjoying his chicken.”
Jill Frappier - Gertrude

“- Jay: Wait a minute. You just flash that thing, it erases her memory, and you just make up a new one?
- Kay: A standard issue neuralyzer.”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay