Nell Carter

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

“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...”

“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.”

“I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.”

“No one teaches you how to be graceful.”

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

“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.”

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

“I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.”