Legacy Concerns Quotes

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

I like being a rapper and cursing and getting paid. But at some point I feel like I'm going to be an old angry ass man, who is going to run the school board or city council.

I like to hoop but I don't want to be remembered for one thing, like 'oh he just plays basketball.'

I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

I'm not going to sit here and dwell on whether or not I am going to the Hall of Fame.

I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.

The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass.

I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?

You know how Bette Midler always says her obituary will read, 'Bette Midler dies. Started her career at the Continental Baths?' Mine will say 'Chris March died. He was on Season 4 of 'Project Runway.'' It's an amazing show, it did a lot for me, and I'm fine with it. Unless it becomes terribly disreputable.

We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot.

I'll always be remembered for 'Frampton Comes Alive!,' but I've got so much other work that I've done since that, that I feel it's almost like after 'Frampton Comes Alive!' ran its course, my career - I'll say it - 'Petered' out.

I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, 'Wow, is 'Samurai Jack' my 'Mickey Mouse?' Am I stupid to stop working on it?'

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I'd like to be remembered for more than just that.

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.