Geraldo Rivera Quotes

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

I been in this game a long time.

Hey, I've been doing what I do for a long time, my friend.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

I've done it all.

To be somebody you must last.

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.