Robert Duvall Quotes

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

I want to leave a nice legacy.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.

A legacy for me is being a piece of the soundtrack of someone's life.

Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

I want to make a serious legacy.

Everything can happen in tennis.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

People may soon lose interest in me. I want to make sure I've done everything I can for my family when that time comes.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Predictions are so often, so wrong ... The future is just too complicated.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

A Politician is never remembered for how he started. He is remembered for how he finished.

The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Unfortunately, in football, sometimes you think that things might go one way, but eventually, they take an unexpected turn or head in another direction.

I'm very much into legacies.

I don't want any memorials or a grave which my children would have to look after or feel guilty about. I don't want to leave any trace except for the work I have done.

People are going to forget that I won a Super Bowl, but they're never going to forget the kind of impact you had on them personally.