Quotes About Legacy

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

My father is my hero, my mother is a saint, and I want to fill those shoes and I want to be a father for somebody else.

Everton have had great centre-forwards in the past - they are big boots to fill.

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.

I am proud because when the history of Bhojpuri film industry will be written my name will be there.

My dad got into the film industry around the time I was born.

If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

I am what I am only because of films.

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Not all films are going to go down in history.

His potential is greater and higher than Everton as a final destination. If Romelu was to play at Everton until the end of his career I know he has left something behind.

Israel Adesanya will not be Eugene Bareman's final UFC champion.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.