Shania Twain Quotes

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

My mother was never very famous when I was growing up, so it wasn't so difficult. It was only when I left home and went to university that she become this style icon.

I'm not going to lie; having acting greats like Kamal Haasan and Sarika as parents has, in a sense, opened doors.

I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn't famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.

I more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to make it on my own. Daddy is a legend and he don't need me to keep him alive.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

I don't want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

I grew up in the public eye from the age of 15 and it wasn't a choice I made, it just kind of got imposed on me because of who my dad is.

You cannot be a famous human being to your children.

It doesn't worry me how I'm remembered.

My legacy is so, so important to me.

People say I inherited my feisty attitude on the cricket pitch from my dad, but he and I might disagree. The most useful trait I've inherited from my mother is to make sure that I'm always organised.

I always think Hank Williams knew that he was going to die young, and that's why he did that much work.