Tom Stoppard Quotes

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

I have a terrible memory.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.

I somehow can't remember numbers, names, and faces. I forget very easily.

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

I have a really terrible memory.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.

Hillary Clinton told the FBI 39 times she couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember. Or recall key events concerning illegal server and related misconduct.

The girls I've dated hate me a little because I can't remember anything about first dates or when we kissed. I have the worst memory in the world!

I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

I'm not like that smart. I like, forget stuff all the time.

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.