Quotes About Legacy

To see old faces, to give back to the kids and let them know I come from these same schools and streets, and they can make it out, too, that's my biggest message to them.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we'll go down in history as one of the greatest factions of all time.

My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

That's what's important to all of us that work on 'Atlanta,' that people don't see us as a fad.

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

I don't want to be the guy who, 'Oh, he's falling apart. He's a little punchy. Maybe it's time to stop.'

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

Every empire eventually falls.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I do not want fame.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'