Diahann Carroll Quotes

This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

As long as you can worry about the stuff you can control, that's always best for you.

I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

I don't torture myself.

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

Everything in moderation. I keep a healthy body, a healthy look. It's important not to be obsessive about anything - fitness, training, eating - because then you end up focusing on only that. And you can't obsess about anything when you're on the road.

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.

I control my anger.

I can't worry about things that I can't control. That's the best approach, so I've been doing that.

I just try to control what I can control.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

As long as I am on the sets I am like a goddess, goody-goody and nice. If there is something that upsets me or irritates me, I don't show it there. I wait till I get home and direct it on my family.

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.