Quotes About Legacy

I'd rather be remembered for being kind than for my achievements.

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

I'm here to be an actor who wants to be remembered for her roles and her films rather than her looks.

If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.

I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.

I'd like to be remembered a little bit for my performances.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

I want to be remembered as a star.

'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.

I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

I want to be remembered by the characters I do.

Garcia name is going to be remembered in the boxing game for a long time.

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

Ayrton Senna was an incredible legend who will be remembered and admired forever.

When people look back at my career, I want them to see a fierce competitor, but more importantly, I want to be remembered for my consistency of character and the legacy I hope to leave through my First Things First Foundation.

I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.

I just want to be remembered for good work.

If I want to be remembered, I want to be known as a good actor. As times change, we, as actors, need to adapt with it.

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

I think I'm changing the game. In that sense, I'm what Steph Curry is to basketball. Don't get me wrong: I don't necessarily think Steph Curry is the best basketball player, but he changed the game, so he's going to always go down as being remembered. Now everyone wants to shoot the 3 and shoot it from deep.