Nell Carter

I had to want to lose weight myself.

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

New York is a good city for not having to get fat.

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.

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

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