Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

I don't feel like I have a legacy.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I want to leave a nice legacy.

Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.

I care about my legacy.

I'm here to fight; I'm not here to protect whether you think I'm a good person or not. I've given up on that.

My legacy is so, so important to me.

I didn't even know I had a legacy.

I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.

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

We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.

I want to be remembered for my roles and films rather than my looks.

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 don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.

My legacy is secure.

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

The 'Playboy' affiliation will probably stick for the rest of my life to some extent.

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.