Ronnie Corbett Quotes

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

My memory's pretty much gone.

I've always been forgetful.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.

You don't just forget things overnight.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.