Timothy Simons Quotes

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

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

I've accomplished everything I ever wanted to do in my career.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

I don't trust too much in personal trophies.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.

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

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.

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.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

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've been blessed to have a long career.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.