Judith Guest Quotes

My memory's pretty much gone.

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

My memory's not too good.

My memory is not that good anymore.

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

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

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

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

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.

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

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.

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.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.

If I'm home and I come up with something, I'll try to record it, but a lot of the time I'll forget to. A lot of things go off into space and never come back 'cause I just don't remember them.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

I don't know a great deal about Alzheimer's - just what it does.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He would eat everything and anything that was around; then he wouldn't remember that he ate it and would demand to be fed again.

I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.

I'm not as sharp as I used to be.