Cicely Tyson Quotes

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• When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved…
• I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a…
• I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're…
• When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's…
• Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one
• We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
• I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as…
• The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat…
• You never know what motivates you.
• I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to…
• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had…
• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.
• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
• In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress.…
• The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or…

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