Ellen Gilchrist Quotes

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

If you were to come in to my house, I have archived every fan letter I've ever been given, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of them.

I don't keep a lot of memorabilia around.

I've always been a collector at heart.

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos from my many travels.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

My wife collects knickknacks.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

All the records I keep are like friends I visit.