Quotes About Legacy

It's always an interesting experience with the 'Saw' films, when a sequel comes out that I didn't have anything to do with, creatively, because here's this idea, this story, and this character that I created for James Wan, but now it doesn't need me anymore.

I was inspired by James Brown, Michael Jackson and Prince.

I've been sampled at least 71 times. Me, James Brown and George Clinton, we're the ones who've been sampled the most.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job you always do, it ends up being a 'Bond' movie and a sense of what it is to put music to James Bond and to honor the music that exists.

It's good sometimes to have a character that starts as one thing and ends as another, but James Bond, Hercules, these are pretty enduring stories.

Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.

Tenryu is a legend in Japan.

My kids are from Japan. My kids grandparents are from there, and they never really watched me fight back in the day.

I was going to go back to doing the indies more often and possibly working more of a full-time schedule in Japan. If I didn't get the chance to go to WWE, that would have been a bummer to me, but I was just going to continue to do the best I could and continue my legacy.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

It's a generational thing. It'd be great if some kids grew up with me as that Jason Bourne figure.

I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.

Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.

People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

Jay Prince was instrumental in everything that came out of Rap-a-Lot, especially anything that had to do with the Geto Boys or Scarface.

I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.

I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.

Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players.