Gabriel Mann Quotes

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

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

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

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

The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

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

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

My memory's pretty much gone.

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

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

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

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?

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.