Memento Quotes (2000)
Natalie: What’s the last thing that you do remember?
Leonard Shelby: My wife…
Natalie: That’s sweet.
Leonard Shelby: …dying.
Leonard Shelby: Awake. Where am I?
Leonard: I have this condition.
Hotel Clerk: Condition?
Leonard: It’s my memory.
Hotel Clerk: Amnesia?
Leonard: No, no, no, no. It’s different from that. I have no short term memory. I know who I am, I know all about myself. I just, since my injury, I can’t make new memories.
Joe Pantoliano: You really wanna get this guy don’t you?
Guy Pearce: Killed my wife. He took my f’ing memory.
Teddy: Maybe it’s time you started investigating yourself.
Leonard Shelby: We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I’m no different.
Leonard Shelby: Now… where was I?
Leonard Shelby: How can you read that again?
Leonard’s Wife: I love it.
Leonard Shelby: But you’ve read it so many times before…
Leonard’s Wife: Don’t be a prick. I don’t read it to annoy you, I enjoy it.
Leonard: If you have a piece of information which is vital, writing on your body instead of a piece of paper can be the answer. It’s just a permanent way of keeping a note.
Guy Pearce: If we talk for too long I’ll forget how we started and the next time I see you I won’t remember this conversation. I don’t even know if I’ve met you before. So if I seem strange or rude or something…I’ve told you this before haven’t I?
Hotel Clerk: Yeah. I mean, I don’t mean to mess with you, but it’s so weird. You don’t remember me at all?
Guy Pearce: No.
Hotel Clerk: We’ve talked a bunch of times.
Guy Pearce: I’m sure we have.
Teddy: It’s beer o’clock and I’m buying.
Leonard Shelby: I don’t feel drunk
[as he looks at a near empty bottle of alcohol in his hand]
Leonard Shelby: I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next.
Teddy: Nice shot, Liebowitz.
Natalie: Must be tough living your life according to a couple of scraps of paper. You mix your laundry list with your grocery list and you end up eating your underwear for breakfast.
Guy Pearce: I don’t think I’d let someone like me carry a gun.
Teddy: Someone has to pay, Lenny. Somebody always pays.
Leonard Shelby: …who did this to you?
Dodd: What?
Leonard Shelby: Who did this to you?
Dodd: You did?
Leonard Shelby: Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They’re just an interpretation, they’re not a record, and they’re irrelevant if you have the facts.
Teddy: Finished playing with yourself there, Lenny?
Leonard: Just because there are things I don’t remember, doesn’t make my actions meaningless. The whole world doesn’t just disappear when you close your eyes does it?
Natalie: I can say whatever I want and you won’t remember. I can call your wife a F’ing whore and we can still be friends.
Leonard Shelby: These tracks are just a few days old.
Teddy: What are you, Pocahontas?
Leonard Shelby: Strip! Take off your pants too.
Jimmy Grantz: Why?
Leonard Shelby: I don’t want to get blood on them.
Teddy: Was he scared?
Leonard Shelby: Yeah, I think it was your sinister moustache.
Teddy: [checking Leonard's pulse] You’re living.
Leonard Shelby: Only for revenge.
