Vince Gilligan Quotes

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

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.

My memory's not too good.

My memory is not that good anymore.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

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

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

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.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.

Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'

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

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

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