Quotes About Legacy

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.

Jihad will continue even if I am not around.

My dad, Jim, was 55 when I was born.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

Rest in peace, Harold Lederman. When I was younger, my brother and I used to imitate his famous 'OK, Jim!' line while watching the big 'HBO Boxing' events. What an amazing character he was, and while I never met him, he seemed to be a lovely man.

Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have really left a mark on who I am as a director.

As long as there's young people, they can look to Jim to help them cut the umbilical chord.

Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.

When I was younger, all my friends were older - John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. I loved talking to those people.

Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn't happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

Joan Rivers was my hero.

I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.