Peter Brook Quotes

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

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

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

I just hope that my films will survive me.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

If I'm ever lucky enough to be part of an awards tribute, I hope they play 'Muffin Top' in my little clip. That's how I want to be remembered.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

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

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

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

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.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

In the end, Kane will be remembered as a character I played on TV. In that respect, I want people to remember me for more than that.

I want to be remembered for a body of work so that when the next guy comes up, he could think of Sterling K. Brown in the same way that I think of Andre Braugher and James Earl Jones.