Black Quote by Suzanne Brockmann

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women…

— Reese Witherspoon

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave…

— Jacqueline Bisset

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid…

— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on…

— Ben Mendelsohn

I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as…

— Cicely Tyson

One of my early heroes was Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

— Brooke Baldwin

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

— Orianthi

The fact that I'm being cast in a show to play a female lead and I'm the dark-skinned Black woman with short hair, it's…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

— Naomie Harris

I hope I'm not sounding presumptuous or vain. but I think like Sridevi, I was another heroine who could break the barriers between the…

— Madhuri Dixit Nene

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

— Gene Tierney

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

— Peggy Whitson