Nell Carter

I had to want to lose weight myself.

You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.

Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.