"I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory"
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There is something almost mischievous in the way Cesar Romero lets the boast and the shrug share the same breath. “I should remember more” arrives as a polite concession to age, time, or the expectations we put on celebrities to be living archives of their own myths. Then he undercuts the humility with a neat pivot: “and I have a pretty good memory.” It’s not denial exactly; it’s a controlled flirtation with it. The line plays like a performer’s two-step, acknowledging the interviewer’s premise while keeping ownership of the narrative.
As an actor who lived through Hollywood’s studio era and later became immortal to many as the Joker, Romero’s public identity was always part role, part reputation. The subtext is that memory isn’t just a mental filing cabinet; it’s a curated press kit. Forgetting can be accidental, but it can also be strategic: an elegant way to dodge messy specifics, preserve old loyalties, or avoid reducing a long career to gossip and trivia. “Should” does heavy lifting here, implying a moral obligation to recall, as if biography were a civic duty.
The intent feels less confessional than lightly defensive. He’s telling you: don’t mistake my discretion for decline. It’s a line that protects glamour in a business that feeds on exposure, and it does so with a wink - the kind of charm that lets a subject change land as a joke.
As an actor who lived through Hollywood’s studio era and later became immortal to many as the Joker, Romero’s public identity was always part role, part reputation. The subtext is that memory isn’t just a mental filing cabinet; it’s a curated press kit. Forgetting can be accidental, but it can also be strategic: an elegant way to dodge messy specifics, preserve old loyalties, or avoid reducing a long career to gossip and trivia. “Should” does heavy lifting here, implying a moral obligation to recall, as if biography were a civic duty.
The intent feels less confessional than lightly defensive. He’s telling you: don’t mistake my discretion for decline. It’s a line that protects glamour in a business that feeds on exposure, and it does so with a wink - the kind of charm that lets a subject change land as a joke.
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