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Legend Quotes

In 1984, I starred in ‘Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,’ my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was ‘too southern’. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I’m amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

– Andie MacDowell

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the – the notion of chivalry.

– Matt Frewer

Megadeth is a legend, and I’m not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

– Dave Mustaine

Because it was one of my favorites from the Arthurian legend, one of the things that I really enjoyed doing was the legend of the crystal cave. In my head, it was fun to imagine what it was going to look like because there was a lot of CGI involved, in seeing visions of the future reflected within crystals.

– Colin Morgan

Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

– Don Rickles

I’m always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn’t have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.

– Marcia Gay Harden

George Morris is a legend. I was lucky enough to have been on a number of his U.S. show-jumping teams and am constantly trying to learn from him.

– Georgina Bloomberg

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

– Dennis Christopher

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

– Francis Bacon

As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that’s fine. I think that comes with anything that’s challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.

– Nelly

‘The Marrying Season’ is the final book in the ‘Legend of St. Dwynwen’ series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.

– Candace Camp

My sister Kathleen – one year older – was the school’s acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn’t going to mess with that.

– D. B. Sweeney

Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.

– Megan Ellison

Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He’s a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.

– Nicolas Maduro

I saw Jimi Hendrix – it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

– David Cassidy

When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he’s still very present on TV because he’s commenting for Formula One.

– Daniel Bruhl

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

– Daniel Bell

Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film.

– Graham Moore

I’m also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

– Mark Knopfler

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

– David Lee Roth

I think it’s silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they’d like to think that, I’d like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus’ Son and I just didn’t know it.

– Denis Johnson

If it’s a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there’s lots of material laid out.

– David Strathairn

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young. So, I didn’t think about it at the time when ‘I Am Legend’ came out. I just watched it.

– Charlie Tahan

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

– Peter O’Toole

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher’s Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

– Frederick Soddy

I always aimed at being a legend.

– Eileen Myles

All though I didn’t meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

– Dave Winfield

I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.

– Freddie Mercury

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He’s also inspiring on a musical level.

– Estelle

When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.

– Daniel Bruhl

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