I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
I have a good visual memory. I'm good with faces, but names - I get in trouble a lot; I can't seem to remember people. People think I'm rude. As a side comment, you know, I'm not being rude: I just kind of blank out.
Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.
Nothing is more embarrassing than calling someone the wrong name, but nothing is harder than trying to pretend you know someone's name when you don't.
I can't remember names and things.
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'
I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people’s names isn’t a neurological condition; it’s a choice. You choose not to make learning people’s names a priority. It’s like saying, “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.
I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.
You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.
I have been in the industry for many years now, but people still come up to me and say, 'Sir, you're such a good actor. We loved watching you in that movie. What's your name?' While any other actor might get offended, I don't mind this at all.
Slapped her then I asked her what's my name. She said N-I-C, the president of the N-Y-C.
I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.
I am terrible with people's names.
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.
I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.
the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A
I do think I have a lesser ability to remember facts and names than I have done previously, because you never have to store them; you just look them up again. I could make the same recipe 15 times, but I'll never, ever remember how to make it because I'll just look it up.
I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
My father could never remember anybody's name.
My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.
During the eight years that Dwight Eisenhower was President ... even to the last year of his incumbency, if I happened to be with a group of senators and others greeting him, I had to tell him my name.
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.
What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.
