Vanessa Williams Quotes

Success is the sweetest revenge.

— Vanessa Williams

“I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.”

— Vanessa Williams

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

— Vanessa Williams

“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”

— Vanessa Williams

“I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.”

— Vanessa Williams

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

— Vanessa Williams

Broadway is really my life.

— Vanessa Williams

“Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.”

— Vanessa Williams

“And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.”

— Vanessa Williams

“New York is my home.”

— Vanessa Williams

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

— Vanessa Williams

“I love the French horn.”

— Vanessa Williams

“My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.”

— Vanessa Williams