Quotes About Legacy

It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it.

People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

I think it's very touching to see young people interested in what we did a long time ago. They don't say, 'Well, I saw this old film with you.' They say: 'I saw this wonderful film. I really love it.'

Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

My father passed me the concept that vicuna was something very special, very expensive. So it was a question of pride. I didn't want anybody else in the world to be touching vicuna before us.

It's touching that people only think there's one of these around. Dynastic families are all around us.

I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one.

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.

'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

You know, it's so tough not to be bit by the acting bug being in this film family.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

I come from a long line of very strong, tough women. We stick to our principles and stand up for what we believe in, which is fundamental fairness, which is my raison d'etre.

It's tough having the last name 'Rickles.' Luckily, my kids handled it great.

I've got a tough act to follow.

Often when I'm trying to make tough decisions, I rely on the lessons my father taught me and ask myself, 'What Would Tony Say?'

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

I don't want to be remembered as just some tough guy who could take punches.

I had a tough life, and I wanted my kids to have better than what I had.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.