Nell Carter Quotes

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Nell Carter

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 13, 1948

If I'm with someone for too long, I begin feeling trapped.

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'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

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I decided after my last divorce to marry myself.

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I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.

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

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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.

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I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.

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All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

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I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

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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.

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

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When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

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Rich is not better.

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You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

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Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

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No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.

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Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.

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It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

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I'm not very kind about marriage. I will never get married again.

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For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

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