Quotes About Legacy

If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.

Producing is a little bit in my blood. Philanthropy also is a very important for me.

In the mid- to late '70s, there was no one better than ABBA at writing and producing great pop.

Throughout Manchester United's history, we always come up with answers to problems. Big stars come and go, but still, the team keep producing the same performances.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

My greatest production is my children. Then, to see my grandbabies is the gravy.

But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.

My production company wasn't doing well, so we were not producing films. Over a period of time, we have realized that we are going to produce our own films and make cinema that we like. We've got so much in-house talent, and my kids are going to be coming, so we all decided that we are going to be in films and cinema.

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

We don't want to just be known for what we did. We want to be known for what we do and what we did. We've been highly productive since 2000 when 'Crush' came out.

I have been lucky enough to inherit the patient, loving and nurturing side from my mother, and the organizational and productive side from my dad.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.