Diahann Carroll Quotes

#1. When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

Tracy Morgan

#2. The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.

Channing Tatum

#3. I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

Diahann Carroll

#4. I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

Diahann Carroll

#5. Never use hope to hurt someone.

Paul Acampora

#6. I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's ... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Diahann Carroll

#7. I still prefer horses to human beings.

Morrissey

#8. With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

Diahann Carroll

#9. You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

#10. Well, God knows what you used to be, then, because you're built like a brick shithouse and hung like a horse.

K.J. Charles

#11. Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

David Boudia

#12. Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in ... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride ... how the people I associated with worked together.

Diahann Carroll

#14. I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Diahann Carroll

#15. There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

Baltasar Gracian

#16. If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Michael Palin

#17. In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.

Diahann Carroll

#18. I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.

Diahann Carroll

#19. If you're not invited to the party, throw your own.

Diahann Carroll

#20. Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed
and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Thomas Paine

#21. I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

Diahann Carroll