Jose Feliciano Quotes

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

The show changed my life in so many remarkable ways. Now in my 82nd year, I have been blessed with a wonderful 67-year career with 'Hee Haw' as the icing on the cake.

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

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

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.

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.

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.

I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

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

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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.

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

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.