Jason Sudeikis Quotes

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.'

If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

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

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

Actually, I just want to entertain people. Put that in my obituary, a final picture, all dark in the background.

Cannabis always made me paranoid; I felt like people were watching me. And now I'm sober, and I've got this talk show in the middle of the night on CBS, and I now know that no one is watching me.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.