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.
DIANA ROSSI 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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
-
-
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.
DIANA ROSS -
My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
DIANA ROSS -
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 ROSS -
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?
DIANA ROSS -
I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
DIANA ROSS -
A 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 ROSS -
I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.
DIANA ROSS -
My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
DIANA ROSS -
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.
DIANA ROSS -
I 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 ROSS -
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
DIANA ROSS -
I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don’t want possessions to hold me down.
DIANA ROSS -
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
DIANA ROSS -
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.
DIANA ROSS -
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.
DIANA ROSS