I'll perform all the way to the grave.
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
I’ve made the decision to get off the stage.
When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]
I worked with J. T. Walsh - it was one of the best experiences I ever had - a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: 'The Negotiator.' He died a couple of months after that. He was great.
I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!
The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any other competition before. In the past, I had strong concepts for short programs and lyrical ones for the long. But this time, it's the other way around.
I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to put out 110 percent to make sure that I am up at the top.
There's nothing that compares to watching that final of Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM17 to 20 minute sequence in one sitting. It fills you with a giddy energy watching that. Then, being gifted with the silence that follows...I've never had a theatrical experience like that before, I'm sure.
When 'The Warrior' came out, Scandal was no more.
'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
I can stop and retire when I get to Japan. I don't care if it's one show, that's all that's left for me. I just need to wrestle in Japan once and that would be the cherry on top.
Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.
It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'
The way I look at it is I had to retire as world champion with my last match at WrestleMania.
I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.
I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.
I always feel like every song is the last song.
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?
