Johnny Mathis Quotes

People say that I must get bothered when someone stops me for an autograph or a photo. I'll get bothered when no one asks me. Being asked means people haven't forgotten the time I played.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

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.

When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

People still come to me and compliment me on 'Bobby.'

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.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.

I'm always surprised at how many people remember me from 'Degrassi.'

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.