Quotes About Legacy

I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.

I enjoyed my time working with Mae Young; she was one of the coolest, most respected people that I ever met in the industry.

I feel like now my kids can run around and say, 'My mom was the Rock's daughter.' I don't have kids yet, but my future children - I just feel like it's the coolest thing ever.

My dad was a cop.

My father was a cop.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.

Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.