Jimmy White Quotes

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?

I don’t remember.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

My memory stops at 14.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

For me, like anyone, you want to go into a movie and have an enjoyable time where you're just involved.

I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

You watch Jeff Sessions testifying in front of Congress, Jesus, like watching an amnesiac: "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't remember what I don't recall," "I recall what I don't remember." Amazing.

I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.