Top 22 Diahann 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 people who understand the issues say they don't make the decisions and the people who make the decisions say they don't have the time to understand the issues. Either way, decisions are being made without the issues being understood.
Balan Gothandaraman
#3. I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.
Diahann Carroll
#5. I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that's the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#6. I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.
Diahann Carroll
#7. Grief is not a feeling it is a capacity. It is not something that disables you, we are not on the receiving end of grief we are on the practising end of grief.
Stephen Jenkinson
#8. I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's ... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.
Diahann Carroll
#9. Just love what you are doing, and try to play more.
Lang Lang
#10. I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
Christie Hefner
#11. With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.
Diahann Carroll
#12. 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
#13. When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
John Lubbock
#14. 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
#15. I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
Diahann Carroll
#16. Fearghus the Destroyer, first-born son to Queen Rhiannon and future Dragon King of the Southlands unless he could find another sucker to take such an oxen-shit job - Maybe I can talk Morfyd into being the next queen . . . no. She's not that stupid -
G.A. Aiken
#17. We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
Simone Weil
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.
Diahann Carroll
#22. It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.
Kay Harding
