Diana Ross Quotes

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

I'm really lucky, I have my performing career so I can continue to do personal appearances. Most actors have to do a film. But I thought I would wait until I found something I really liked.A lot of my friends feel that I'm wrong to wait. They say I should have done My Bodyguard, but I don't think so. I think I've been right.

I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

Hair has always been important.

For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.

Being a parent is very important to me.

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

I am in prayer for his kids and the family.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

When I'm working I actually forget to eat. I don't eat sweets because I don't care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.

I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.