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13 quotes by Cicely Tyson

Cicely L. Tyson is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder (1972). For this role she also won the NSFC Best Actress and NBR Best Actress Awards. She starred in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), for which she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award. During her career she has been nominated for eleven...
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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... →

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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

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You never know what motivates you.

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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... →

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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:... →

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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... →

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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

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Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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