"I've been in a great many films, but I suppose if an actor can be remembered for one role, then they're very fortunate." - Janet Leigh,actress whose 53-year Hollywood career was overshadowed by her role as Marion Crane, who is slashed to death in a motel shower in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho TIME Staff
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year