Quotes About Legacy

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don't write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

Taking care of my parents is one of the things that I want to do, just give them some of the things that we never had a chance to have. It's all about remembering where I came fromt.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do.

Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne