Latest Diana Ross Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Long, Forever, Gowns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Party, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Letting Go, Magic, Actresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Diana Ross

  Fun, Littles, Enjoy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Vacation, Going Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have a lust for life.

  Diana Ross

  Lust, Lust For Life

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

  Diana Ross

  New York, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Want, China, My Own

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

  Diana Ross

  Show Business, Shows, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.

  Diana Ross

  Thinking, Want, Hold Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Daughter, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If 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 Ross

  Responsibility, Thinking, Interviews

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It tickles me, my daughter said that to me. She said, "Mommie, why is it that every time they say your name they put your age right behind it?"

  Diana Ross

  Daughter, Names, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Beautiful, New York, Crazy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Diana Ross

  Hurt, Thinking, Media

• People 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 Ross

  Book, Writing, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  Diana Ross

  Names, Able, Purpose

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Fighting, Names, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Book, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.

  Diana Ross

  Children, Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Fashion, Moving, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Thinking, Should Have, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Diana Ross

  Couple, Years, Paris

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.

  Diana Ross

  Thinking, Stories, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com