Quotes About Legacy

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.

'Pompeii' is kind of a lifelong obsession for me.

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone players in my family, and there were extra saxophones, so that was an easy one to pick up. It was fun - it was okay - it just wasn't me. It didn't feel like my instrument, so I never followed through.

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymore. When the State of Israel was established, it was, for the parents and grandparents of these young Jews, a miracle. It was David and Goliath. We were the just cause. It was about values. We were small, but we were the good guys in the world!

It is more than obvious that Ferrari has a big place in my heart since I was born and, also, in the hearts of our family.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, 'He was a nice guy' or, 'He was occasionally decent' or, 'Mike wasn't as bad as a lot of people.'

I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life.

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

American's capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

A story has to stick with those who tell it. It belongs to them. Just like the October Boy, it's got nowhere else to go.