Quotes About Legacy

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when I die, and my cooking translates in my daughter's memory as, simply, this: time.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

At the end of my career I always wanted to look back and know that I had given it my absolute best.

People have asked me, 'Do you consider yourself a trailblazer?' Absolutely not. And the reason I say this is, I am aware of the women who came before me.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I want my kids to be proud of their dad and not to go to school and hear abuse. One day they will read many things about me and I would like it to be about football.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

After I stop wrestling, my dream is to open a wrestling academy, train students and produce more Geetas and Babitas!

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

I've done things in my career, you know, accomplishments, and being in DX, NWO, the Kliq, all of that.

What I really want is to create a name based on my own accomplishments.

I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs.

I would prefer to be famous for something I did or built or achieved.

Once you look back on your career when it's over, you can say, 'This is what I achieved,' or, 'This is what I'm driving.'

I spent six wonderful years at Stade Rennais... I'm proud of what I've achieved at the club.

Of all the success and everything we've achieved, I think I'll be a great dad.

Nobody from my family has come close to what I have achieved in life.

For an actor, that is the biggest achievement, to be known by your character name.

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.