Diahann Carroll

“You have to be a little bit of a masochist to be an actor.”

“I am not a saint. I am not a sinner. I am a woman.”

“The world's a stage and I'm a star. I'm a very bright star.”

“We have to be more concerned with the quality of life than the quantity.”

“I want to be the best I can be, and I want to be remembered for that.”

“I think that's what we all want, in the end. To know that we mattered.”

“When you are a pioneer, you are the one with the arrows in your back.”

“I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I'm also a role model for myself.”

“I've always been an activist.”

“Anger is a waste of energy. It can't be repaired. It's gone.”

“If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”

“At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on unhappy things.”

“I never thought I'd live to see the day that a black man would be president of the United States.”

“I don't think I was ever a 'celebrity.' I was a 'star.'”