Fred Astaire Quotes

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

You're only as big as your last hit.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

Politics is the only profession where there's life after death.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

You're always proud that people still want to hear what you're doing.

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.

As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they're not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the '70s.

Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.

All these years, people have spoken good and bad things about me, but I always end up being discussed.

If kids remember me as a national hero, why would I mind? In fact, I'd give my right arm for that.

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.

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

I am only interested in being famous for my dancing. For me, the concept of the sacred monster is only about the stage - it is not about image.

I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.