Quotes About Legacy

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

I was not born in Telangana but my origins are in Telangana. My parents Varalaxmi and Srinivas Prasad hailed from Ramannagudem.

Orlando is my history.

I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

Before I pass, I want to start an orphanage and name it after my mother. She worked with kids all her life.

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.

You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.

Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?

My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and the Academy is so intractable to this day.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

When the fans were watching my dad, you could never tell if this was real or is this fake, and that's what made him so special. Every ounce of energy went to being The Nature Boy.