Top 30 Nell Carter Quotes

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

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

I decided after my last divorce to marry myself.

Because I’ve always had a strong personality, I’ve always thought I knew what was best.

Rich is not better.

I have my own definition of God, but I believe God is whatever you want Him to be.

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

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

I’m at my best when there’s distance between me and a man.

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I’ll feel better.

Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.

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.

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.

I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.

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.

‘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.

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

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.

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

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

If I’m with someone for too long, I begin feeling trapped.

I had to want to lose weight myself.

I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.

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

My marriage is very important to me.

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

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

You can get by on four hours’ sleep, but you’re not very exciting.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

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.