Jay Roach Quotes

I have talked about this before, I have always been bad at saving memorabilia.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.

This is going to make me sound really weird and stalkery, but I've bought the aftershaves of all my ex-boyfriends. Sometimes I like to smell them and be like 'aah, that's Charlie... aah that's Dan'.

It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

If you were to come in to my house, I have archived every fan letter I've ever been given, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of them.

I hate throwing personal things away, especially my cards. As I know I won't be dancing for ever, these are the things that I will look back on.

Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.