Malcolm D. Lee Quotes

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

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 have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

If I was called back to 'Grand Budapest 2,' a prequel or whatever, I'm there. I'm there in a heartbeat.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

I would want a sequel to 'Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai.' But more than me, it's the audience who are looking forward to the same.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

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.

It is the third edition of 'Housefull,' I was there in the first and second, thank god, I'm in the third part.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Bill Withers, Van Morrison and Marvin Gaye are pioneers in popular music for the last century, and these are people who have influenced me as well, so it's pretty flattering. I've got a long way to go to reach anywhere near what those guys have done. But it's a good encouragement.