Kathy Bates Quotes

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

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

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

I want to be remembered.

Look, everyone who ever comes to Hollywood, you hope to do something that people will remember you for.

I would just like to be remembered.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

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

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.