Quotes by Cicely Tyson - Page 1

You never know what motivates you.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Inspirational
Motivational
Knows
Never
Motivates
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I will lead my people out of bondage, Lord.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Bondage
Lord
People
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I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Rejection
Allow
Learned
Move
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Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one
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Gone
Should
Should Have
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Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.
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Movie
Ali
Malcolm
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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Challenges
Yourself
Things
Really
About
Make
Never
You
Discover
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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Film
Ifs
Support
Expect
Films
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My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Character
Gratification
Preparation
Working
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Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Age
Aging
Greatest Gifts
Just
Greatest
Could
Ever
Number
Gifts
Possibly
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All I have to do is find someone who has something to say that will enrich my life and they can't get rid of me.
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Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Children
Father
Mother
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Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Purpose
No Interest
Piece
Served
Unless
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The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Gratification
Good Me Bad
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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 three years.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Choices
Entertaining
Roles
Three
Educating
Working
Result
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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.
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Life
Women
Adversity
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Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.
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Roles
Willing
Challenge
Choosing
Consider
Perfectly
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One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Sounder
White
Saw
Lady
Relationships
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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 down if you were not a threat.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Deep Thought
Greatness
Trying
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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 platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.
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Careers
Luxury
Race
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Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
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Believe
Effort
Role Models
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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 long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.
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Fighting
Long
Matter
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My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'
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Church
Brought
Simply
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If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.
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Quilts
Color
Pieces
Yarn
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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 the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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Relationship
Women
Men
Black
California
Journalist
Made
Men And Women
Sounder
Thinking
Love Men Women
Had
Did
Fact
Love Relationship Women
She
Statement
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As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.
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Amount
Jane
Research
Skin
Tremendous
Far
Role
Though
Tremendous Amount
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I didn't want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us - I was the middle child - and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.
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Church
Middle
Night
Our Time
Saturday
Saturday Night
Sunday
Sunday Morning
Three
Child
Time Morning Night
Spent
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I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.
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Bus
Guilty
Left
Our Generation
Today
Young
Counter
Fight
Down
Fought
Generation
Sit
Young People
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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 the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision
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Choices
Decision
Roles
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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 the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.
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Choices
Decision
Fine
Right Decision
Decision Me Know
Actress
Became
Chooses
Condemn
Decision Me Right Decision
Lets
Says
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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. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.
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Luxury
Made
Wanted
Years
Actress
Address
Afford
Being
Career
Could
Early
Early Years
Experiences
Number
Platform
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I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.
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Friends
Health
Cents
Dollars
Security
Wealth
Money Believe Your
Health Money Believe
Buy
Cannot
Measure
Relationships
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How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
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Smell
Always Character People
Area
Project
Gotten
Hear People
Plane
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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 believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
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Work
Believe
Left
Mountain
Thinking
Will
Yourself
Life Believe Yourself
Life Work Believe
Nothing
Begin
Then
Achieved
High
Entire
Entire Life
Towards
Having
Spend
Striving
Reach
Something
Top
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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 out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Moving On
Follow Your Dreams
Follow Your Heart
Mother
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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 out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
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Determined
Juice
Mother
Moved
Prove
Said
Wanted
Mother Me Live
Actress
Sure
Astray
Wrong
Her
She
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One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.
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Equality
Men
Rights
Want
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One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me, and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Relationship
Equal
Equal Rights
Rights
Said
Feel
Ahead
Relationship Man Me
Anybody
Behind
Beside
Walk
One Of The Things
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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 good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused
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Firsts
Roles
Want
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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 good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.
Cicely Tyson / Actress
Film
Focused
Stage
Stay Focused
Good Me Bad
Tv
Attack
Stay
Distract
Either
First Thing
Hear
Role
The First Thing
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