Jose Feliciano Quotes

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

I remember that when I was little, my parents felt that I should study to become a teacher. They thought football was a waste of time and I'd never succeed at it.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

There's so much to do in life, and hopefully I will do it all.

I don't want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I'm still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

Football's no different from any other workplace. If you're not doing the job you think you're capable of, it's frustrating. And I'm aiming for the stars. I'm not content with being in the shadows.

Oh my goodness, do I aspire to be like Gisele? I just turned 23, I'm enjoying being young and focusing on my career.

I think young folks have a good sense of what they want to do.

Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

It is kind of a cliche that many Indian parents, especially in the U.S., want their kids to become doctors or engineers. But my parents encouraged me to turn to music when they found that I had the passion and talent.

My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.

I remember studying so hard for so long and saying to my parents, 'I will be a teacher.' And they were looking at me like, 'Girl... you just want to be on stage. Stop pretending.' So when I chose to do music, they were relieved. My parents were more intelligent and lucid than I was.

Listen - by the time I'm 40, I'm either gonna be super famous or dead.