"There are expectations in how you play your……" — Nicole Beharie
"There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too."
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10 Quotes by Nicole Beharie
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I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a…
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Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are…
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I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.
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I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around…
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I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together…
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I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full…
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My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we…
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us…
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When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but…
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