Caroll Spinney quote: "Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go."

I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids.
TORREY SMITH

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
JACK HERER

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I...
ELON MUSK

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
TANYA TUCKER

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, the...
JUDY COLLINS

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I w...
HOPE SOLO

I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I d...
VALERIE BERTINELLI

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a...
JUDI DENCH

I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high...
CLAY MATTHEWS III

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes...
ARUNDHATI ROY

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacatio...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ

Every two months, I'll get a trim, and every two years, I'll get a cut. And my night ritual ...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Ca...
ADELE

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.
FRANK LAMPARD

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the ligh...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don&...
ZACK GREINKE

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean,...
ALAN FURST

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I wan...
ASHLEY GREENE

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

I don't know the right way to retire.
BARRY SANDERS

I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a ...
MAC DEMARCO

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ...
ADELE

We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their...
GIULIANA RANCIC

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get...
ERIN HEATHERTON

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
BILLY BOB THORNTON

I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got...
JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbie...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do...
ED O'NEILL

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in Februar...
HULK HOGAN

Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do an...
KAJA FOGLIO

Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary...
CHAI JING

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with somethin...
NADIA GIOSIA

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. ...
MARIO LEMIEUX

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
WALTER F. MONDALE

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it'...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions ...
STEPHEN COVEY

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.
JOHN MAYER

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
SAM SIMON

I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, an...
SAM SMITH

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitati...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My ca...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

But I don't only get recognized for 'Friday the 13th.' I was on a TV show called' I&...
BETSY PALMER

I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looke...
NICKI MINAJ

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I d...
MEG WHITE

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to a...
ANNE FRANK

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.
ALAIN PROST

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
ERIC CANTONA

I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It does...
LA'PORSHA RENAE

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that....
JOHN LYDON

I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would w...
MARY GAITSKILL

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature...
ANDY SERKIS

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if ...
AVRIL LAVIGNE

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.
DWIGHT GOODEN

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, ...
ALAN BALL

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
NORAH JONES

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN

I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna...
ANDY MILONAKIS

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't g...
PAT MORITA

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I&#...
CATHERINE TATE

I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm know...
BILLY EICHNER

They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don'...
JOHN WATERS

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchor...
AARON MCGRUDER

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but ...
MEGHAN TRAINOR

I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don...
CHESTER BENNINGTON

I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is...
LA INDIA

I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive....
MALCOLM GLADWELL

I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fu...
DAVE CHAPPELLE

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As fo...
NADIA BOULANGER

Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I...
NICK VUJICIC

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.
ARLO GUTHRIE

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can ...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS

My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions a...
USAIN BOLT

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I don't want to do only blockbusters.
ORLANDO BLOOM

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my bu...
ERYKAH BADU

I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't wa...
CASTER SEMENYA

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere ...
AYUMI HAMASAKI

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wa...
JOAN RIVERS

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ...
JACQUES PEPIN

It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de...
DYLAN WALSH

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'...
ALAN ARKIN

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years -...
JANE GARDAM

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the s...
ELI BROAD

I know I need to watch myself because I don't want anyone to think I'm snobby or stuck up. I...
AUSTIN O'BRIEN

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there....
TERRY GOODKIND

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can forc...
LATA MANGESHKAR

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.'...
KIM FIELDS

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
KARL PILKINGTON

My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. T...
KYRIE IRVING

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ...
MARIO BALOTELLI

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to inv...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

Copied!

Caroll Spinney

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

Caroll Spinney

Share:

Related

More Caroll Spinney