Tracy Morgan Quotes

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.

Look, everyone who ever comes to Hollywood, you hope to do something that people will remember you for.

Most players play with a dream that some day, when they have finished, people will tell their grandchildren that they were a good player. I am the same.

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

When somebody brings up a movie (of mine) that I haven't heard about in a long time, I feel like a 70-year-old pitcher at a bar somewhere, and somebody walks in and says, 'Oh, my God, I was in St. Louis and I saw you. You pitched a shutout.' It's real. I really did do that, because someone today remembers it.

I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

I'll have that inscribed on my damn grave. I still get stopped for being Lois Lane, and I'm 60 and have two grandchildren. So it's kind of weird.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.