Nell Carter

I had to want to lose weight myself.

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

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

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.