Quotes by Nicole Beharie - Page 1

I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Laughing
Made
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Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Black
Minorities
People
Black People Woman
Minority
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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 lives. That looks good to me.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Artist
Careers
Fortunate
Longevity
People
Work Good Me
Wright
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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 and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Kids
Brother
Bully
Children
Little Brother
Tiny
Dressing
Other Kids
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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 in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Car
Ku Klux Klan
Mother
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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 woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Color
Television
Thinking
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I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
New York
Artist
Cash
Fun
Get Together
Jazz
Jazz Musician
Juilliard
Musician
Background
Occasionally
Vocals
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When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Father
Littles
London
Nigeria
Panama
Bug
Foreign
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I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Able
Kind
Wake Up
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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.
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Quirky
Add
Character
Sassy
Struggle
Dimension
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My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!
Nicole Beharie / Film Actress
Mom
Boots
Georgia
Moved
Accent
Adapt
Beat
English
Boot
Trunk
Quickly
Realized
Referred
Suddenly
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