Memory quotes

“- Data: Captain Picard agrees that the B-4 was probably designed with the same self-actualization parameters as myself. If my memory engrams are successfully integrated into his positronic matrix, he should have all my abilities.
- Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but he would also have all of your memories as well. You feel comfortable with that?
- Data:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brent Spiner - Data
LeVar Burton - Geordi La Forge

“- Joe Waters: I'm sorry I don't have a photographic memory, Gus.
- Gus Green: You don't even have a memory.”
Joe Pesci - Joe Waters
Danny Glover - Gus Green

“You'll leave them a name that they can be proud of all their lives. You'll soon feel better, and then you can do more beautiful things than ever before, sir.”

Ernest Cossart - Sidney

“- 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

“Other men have tried to destroy this book. Maybe this copy will be burned. But they can't burn it out of your memories. You'll have to rewrite it someday. That's why you young people are so important. You're the new nation!”

Charles Laughton - Albert Lory

“- Michael: Nicky, do you remember the trees? Remember all the different ways of the trees? Remember that? Remember? Huh? The mountains? Do you remember all that?
- Nick: One shot?
- Michael: One shot! One shot.
- Nick: Yeah.”
Robert De Niro - Michael
Christopher Walken - Nick

“When all this started, all our families have lived in Knockglen for as long as anybody could remember. And in Ireland people have very long memories.”
Minnie Driver - Benny

“Sometimes when I dream, I sense a part of me that's missing. It's a strange feeling having your heart remember something your mind can not.”
Liam Cunningham - Capt. Crewe

“- Noah: All I got is a broken nose and a bunch of recollections. You got recollections, boy?
- Tommy Riley: Yeah. Some.
- Noah: You young yet. They accumulate. Believe me.”
Ossie Davis - Noah
James Marshall - Tommy Riley

“People like to talk, and in doing so they tell the truth. It puts less of a strain on the memory.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot

“- Jay: Did you ever flashy-thing me?
- Kay: No.
- Jay: I ain't playing with you, K. Did you ever flashy-thing me?
- Kay: No.”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- 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

“If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.”
Katharine Ross - Dr. Lilian Thurman

“- Dean Corso: It's an impressive collection. You have some very rare editions here. Are you sure you want to sell them all?
- Old Man's Son: They're of no use to father. Not anymore. Not since he's been this way. His library was his whole world. Now it's just a painful memory.”
Johnny Depp - Dean Corso
Joe Sheridan - Old Man's Son

“- Grandpa Charles James: [Annie smells him] What are you doing?
- Hallie as Annie: Making a memory! Years from now, when I'm all grown up, I'll always remember my grandfather and how he always smelled of...
peppermint and pipe tobacco.”
Ronnie Stevens - Grandfather
Lindsay Lohan - Hallie Parker

“Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.”
William Hurt - Eddie Jessup

“Promise me, on your honor, that you're not in love with her memory.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Kate Croy

“- Kira: What's writing?
- Jen: Words that stay. My master taught me.”
Lisa Maxwell - Kira
Stephen Garlick - Jen

“I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.”
Keanu Reeves - Johnny Mnemonic

“Will you be so kind, Mr Crane, with your camera, to take a picture of this regiment on this glorious hill? For we will always live in its shadow.”
Tom Berenger - Theodore Roosevelt

“- Andy Dufresne: You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: No.
- Andy Dufresne: They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember.”

Warren Beatty - Clyde Barrow

“- Tinkerbell: Well, whoever you are it's still you, 'cause only one person has that smell.
- Peter Banning: Smell?
- Tinkerbell: The smell of someone who has ridden the back of the wind, Peter. The smell of a hundred fun summers, with sleeping in trees and adventures with Indians and Pirates. Oh remember, Peter? The world was ours. We could do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julia Roberts - Tinkerbell
Robin Williams - Peter Banning

“In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.”
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller