Quotes About Legacy

Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.

I don't think that anyone could try to be my father, I think he was extremely unique, and if anybody were to try to act like him and pull off the action in the same way, that would be a mistake. Trying to give a Bruce Lee-esque performance would be an epic failure.

Bruce Lee has fascinated me since childhood.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Mancini was a big part of my life. I sang a lot of his music, and he became a good buddy.

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

I want to build an empire.

I want to build a legacy.

As a nation builder, Nehru was a complete failure.

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.

My buildings are more famous than me.

It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

George Wallace is gone; Bull Connor is dead. He's not coming back.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

I was never bullied because I was Dharmendra's son.

I watched the Bulls growing up. To be part of an organization like that is great.

I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.

The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

Nobody is ready to burn money just because you have a filmi lineage.