Cicely Tyson's Quotes
Born: 1933-12-19
Profession: Actress
Nation: American
Biography of Cicely Tyson
You never know what motivates you.
Tags: Motivates, MotivationalI 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.
Tags: Life, Work, YourselfI 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.
Tags: Love, Men, WomenChallenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
Tags: Challenges, Knew, YourselfThe 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.
Tags: Found, Three, WorkingWe have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
Tags: Expect, Others, SupportI 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.
Tags: Decision, Reason, SomeoneIn 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.
Tags: Career, Number, WantedOne 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.
Tags: Black, Deep, LoveWhen 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.
Tags: Bad, Film, GoodWhen 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.
Tags: Mother, Said, Wrong