I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.
DIANA ROSSI learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.
DIANA ROSSA reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I’m just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
DIANA ROSSInstead 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.
DIANA ROSSMost people are so hard to please that if they met God, they’d probably say yes, she’s great, but.
DIANA ROSSIf I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I’m not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.
DIANA ROSSI don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
DIANA ROSSPeople can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
DIANA ROSSTake a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
DIANA ROSSI really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
DIANA ROSSI think that if my voice for some reason changes – because your voice does change – then it’s time for me not to sing.
DIANA ROSSI listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
DIANA ROSSMy family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
DIANA ROSSIt’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.
DIANA ROSSI don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
DIANA ROSSI jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
DIANA ROSSIf I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
DIANA ROSS