Film 2000. Written by Christopher Nolan. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harriet Sansom Harris, Callum Keith Rennie, Larry Holden, Jorja Fox.
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1Leonard Shelby QuotesQuotes

Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby (tattoo): Remember Sammy Jankis.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: Beg my wife's forgiveness before I blow your brains out.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: Facts, not memories. That's how you investigate. I know, it's what I used to do.

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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: I don't think they'd let someone like me carry a gun.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: I have this condition.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: I have to believe in a world outside my own mind.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different.



8Leonard Shelby QuotesQuotes

Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: I meet Sammy through work. Insurance. I was an investigator. I'd investigate the claims to see which ones were phony. I had to see through people's bullshit. It was useful experience, 'cause now it's my life.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: I was the only guy who disagreed with the cops - and I had brain damage.

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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: If we talk for too long, I'll forget how we started. Next time I see you, I'm not gonna remember this conversation. I don't even know if I've met you before... I've told you this before, haven't I?



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: It's just an anonymous room. There's nothing in the drawers. But you look anyway. Nothing except the Gideon bible, which I, of course, read religiously.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: I'm not a killer. I'm just someone who wanted to make things right. Can't I just let myself forget what you've told me? Can't I just let myself forget what you've made me do. You think I just want another puzzle to solve? Another John G. to look for? You're John G. So you can be my John G... Do I lie to myself to be happy? In your case Teddy... yes I will.



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Leonard Shelby
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.

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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: My wife deserves vengeance. Doesn't make a difference whether I know about it. Just becuase there are things I don't remember doesn't make my actions meaningless. The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it? Anyway, maybe I'll take a photograph to remind myself, get another freaky tattoo.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: Now, where was I?



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: Please call me Leonard. My wife called me Lenny.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: Probably burned truck loads of your stuff before. Can't remember to forget you.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: Sammy Jankis wrote himself endless notes. But he'd get mixed up. I've got a more graceful solution to the memory problem. I'm disciplined and organized. I use habit and routine to make my life possible. Sammy had no drive. No reason to make it work.



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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: We all lie to ourselves to be happy.

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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: When I looked into his eyes I thought I saw recognition. Now I know. You fake it. If you think you're supposed to recognize somebody you, you just pretend. You bluff it to get a pat on the head from the doctors. You bluff it to seem less like a freak.

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Leonard Shelby
Leonard Shelby: You can just feel the details. The bits and pieces you never bothered to put into words. And you can feel these extreme moments... even if you don't want to. You put these together, and you get the feel of a person. Enough to know how much you miss them... and how much you hate the person who took them away.



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Natalie
Natalie: Is that what your little note says? It must be hard living your life off a couple of scraps of paper. You mix your laundry list with your grocery list you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast.

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Natalie
Natalie: You know what one of the reasons for short term memory loss is? Venereal disease. Maybe your cunt of fucking a wife sucked one too many diseased cocks and turned you into a fucking retard.



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Natalie
Natalie: You know what? I think I'm gonna use you. I'm telling you now because I'll enjoy it so much more if I know that you could stop me if you weren't such a fucking freak!



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Natalie
Natalie: You sad, sad freak. I can say whatever the fuck I want, and you won't remember. We'll still be best friends. Or maybe even lovers.



26Natalie & Leonard Shelby QuotesQuotes

Natalie & Leonard Shelby
Natalie: What's the last thing you do remember?
Leonard Shelby: My wife.
Natalie: That's sweet.
Leonard Shelby: Dying.



27Teddy QuotesQuotes

Teddy
Teddy: All you do is moan. I'm the one that has to live with what you've done. I'm the one that put it all together. You, you wander around, you're playing detective. You're living a dream, kid. A dead wife to pine for. A sense of purpose to your life. A romantic quest that you wouldn't end, even if I wasn't in the picture.



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Teddy
Teddy: But when you killed him I, I was so convinced that you'd remember. But it didn't stick... like nothin' ever sticks, like this won't stick.



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Teddy
Teddy: It's beer o'clock, and I'm buying.



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Teddy
Teddy: Leonard, you don't know what's going on. You don't even know my name. You don't know who you are.



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Teddy
Teddy: Nice shot, Liebowitz.



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Teddy
Teddy: So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it.

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Teddy
Teddy: We found him, you killed him!... But you didn't remember.



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Teddy
Teddy: You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth.



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Teddy
Teddy: You want to know, Lenny? Come on, let's go down in the basement. Let's go down, you and me, together. Then you'll know who you really are... No!



36Teddy & Leonard ShelbyQuotesQuotes

Teddy & Leonard Shelby
Teddy: You don't know who you are anymore.
Leonard Shelby: Of course I do. I'm Leonard Shelby. I'm from San Francisco.
Teddy: No, that's who you were! Maybe it's time you started investigating yourself.

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