Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

- Nell Carter

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

- Nell Carter

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

- Nell Carter

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.

- Nell Carter

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.

- Nell Carter

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

- Nell Carter

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

- Nell Carter