Family legacy quotes

I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Mickey Rourke’s character in ‚The Wrestler‘ – that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It’s as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.