Quotes About Legacy

I will always be grateful to Chelsea, to the players, the directors, the owner, the fans.

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Freddie Kruger, Jason, Michael Myers - they're all our generation. I think the kids wanted some new guys that they could take ownership of and Jigsaw was that guy.

Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Where do you go after something like 'Pacific Rim?' Which, for me, was such a moment, to have this thing and see it all come together, and it's big, and it has this cult following... You ask yourself, 'What's next?'

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.

Nobody knows the man behind Rajesh Khanna, because that never existed. In his last few days, he had told me, 'Pack up, show is over.'

I love a place packed with history.

Michael Vaughan gave me his old thigh pad when he retired. It was in my kitbag for a long time.

Many for whom the stage has been the launch pad to cinema have forgotten their roots. I don't intend to, ever.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.

I met Charlie Trotter before I actually saw him in person; I was 24 when I first opened the pages of Charlie's cookbook 'Charlie Trotter's' and was greeted by a man I would know and admire for the next 20 years.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.

We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.