Quotes About Legacy

For me, this profession is about having a career where you can go on working for 60 years, so I'm not particularly bothered by things to do with fame; I like to think that I just do what I do.

When I told my father that I wanted to join the film industry, he asked me if I was sure about it, as acting is a very insecure profession. He also asked me if my reason to join the same profession like him was to have an easy road. I said no.

If I wasn't a footballer, I definitely would have been a chauffer because that is my father's profession and he's a person I aspire to and admire. I wanted to follow in his footsteps as a man.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.

My dad was born in 1909, my mother in 1914, I believe. Their life experiences were different than younger parents, so I grew up with a different perspective.

After being in the game so long, making so much money and achieving different things, now I think a lot more about impact.

The way I know my father is not through media. The way I know my father is in number of different ways. It's through the people who knew him well, his friends, my family. It's also through his own words, because he wrote voluminously.

Talk to any black person in my age group, and they'll say 'A Different World' is why they went to college. The show literally changed my life, and it boggles my mind that it doesn't get the kind of love it deserves.

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

I have a terrible lifestyle. And I don't really see it changing. Maybe in 10 years I'll see it differently - I'll want to see my great-grandchildren and live forever. But right now, young Brittany is not setting things up for old Brittany. And young Brittany does not care.

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

I put pressure on myself to be the best and to carry on the Blanchard name with dignity and with pride.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

The way Raj Kapoor saab acted and directed all his life, I don't think there is anyone today who can even touch him. He was also from a theatre background. I consider him the teacher of creativity.

It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.