Nell Carter
Nell Carter

No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

New York is a good city for not having to get fat.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

Rich is not better.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.

Nell Carter
Nell Carter

I'm not very kind about marriage. I will never get married again.