Quotes by Kym Whitley - Page 1

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.
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Thrifty
Cheap
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Carrying envy makes life more difficult.
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Envy
Carrying
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I've always wanted to be a man for a day.
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Be A Man
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Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.
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La
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I want adopted people to know they were chosen.
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Adopted
Chosen
People Know Want
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The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening.
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Inspiring
Enlightening
Network
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I love female company. I love men, but women are different.
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Women Are
Love Women Men
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I saw Nichelle Nichols in 'Truck Turner,' and she was so good.
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Truck
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I believe that people just want to laugh and have a good time.
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Time Good Believe
Laugh
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It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.
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Pleasing
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Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthy.
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Babies
Moms
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I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.
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Help People
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'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.
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Trip
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In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.
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Hush
African
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A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny.
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Male
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Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.
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Audience
Judging
No Pressure
Pressure
Voice
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I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.
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Cleveland
Roots
Love Family Home
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Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.
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Neighborhood
Ohio
Heights
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You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.
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Reality Tv
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Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.
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Candy
Cooking
French Fries
Feed
French
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It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.
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Love Is
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I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.
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Entourage
Following
Always Me Children
Me Children Always
Little Children
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When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
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Los Angeles
Angeles
Los
Schools
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I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.
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Village
Your Child
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It's so much easier when you're a size two or three to just slip on anything. But a big girl, sometimes you've got to strap some stuff down!
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Size
Slip
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I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Designer
Fancy
Different Kind
Giant
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I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.
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Architect
Aspect
Construction
Drawing
Long Line
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My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.
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Laughed
Funny Time Good
Breeds
Brothers
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So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.
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Busy
Grandma
Old Days
Busy Working
Neighbors
Raise
So Many People
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If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.
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Teachers
Best Beautiful World
Classrooms
Draw
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After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!'
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Curb
Enthusiasm
Friday
Larry
Next
Please
Ran
Everybody
After
David
Discovered
Episode
Hold
Her
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We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.
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African
American Women
Tyler
Perry
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I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.
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Sitcom
Million Years
Talk Show
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My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.
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Parenting
Nurturing
Dad Mother Parents
Disciplinary
Stern
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I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy.
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Becoming
Busy
Married
Traditional
Life Mother Always
Life Busy Me
Stopped
Career
Dreamed
Get Married
Mommy
Traditional Way
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It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.
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Pool
Slipping
Swimming
Swimming Pool
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I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.
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Allergic
Eggs
Peanut Butter
Spit
Tested
Butter
Peanut
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Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.
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Frozen
Ate
Box
Cooked
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Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it.
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Following
Mold
Same Thing
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As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.
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Spending
Spending Time
Balancing
Grueling
Your Child
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I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'
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Profanity
Vocabulary
Always Fight Fighting
Comics
Fight Father Me
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My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much impact they had on the culture, the music, the fashions, the hair styles.
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Cousin
Impact
Biggest Things
Fashions
How Much
Ron
Shaft
Styles
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I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.
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Casts
Brothers
Expects
Improv
Tv Show
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