There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
Du musst für jemanden wählen. Es ist eine Schande aber es muss getan werden.
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
Es war mir von Anfang an bestimmt, Schauspielerin zu werden. Als ich auf die Welt kam, brauchten die Ärzte mir keinen Klaps zu geben, um mich in Gang zu bringen. Es war wie: "Danke, danke! Hier bin ich!" Die Party konnte beginnen.
When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.
Ich habe mich seit den 60er Jahren kaum weiterentwickelt. Meine Seele ist immer noch ein Hippie.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
Es gibt einen Grund, weshalb wir hier sind. Ich glaube, wir sind Fackeln, die andere Menschen durch die Nacht führen.
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
Normal ist nichts weiter als ein Waschmaschinengang.
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
Normal liegt im Auge des Betrachters.
I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
Actors have no color. That's the art form.
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.
I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.
The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
I'm as American as Chevrolet.
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention.
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.
I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
And for some reason, there seems to be no internal policeman for a bully that says maybe you're hurting somebody's feelings. Or worse, maybe you're going to push this perons too far and they'll do something terrible. Something's not processing correctly in a bully's head. It doesn't seem to occur to them that what they're doing is corssing a line that shouldn't be crossed. And it's really, in my mind, no different than taking on defenseless kids. You do it just because you can.
It's an exercise in power; but it's also meant to dinsintegrate someone's Self. It's meant to take away their sense of who they are. And why? Because they're not as strong, or as bit, or as witty.
Bullies are ball-less, soul-less creatures to me. And they're not just children, they're adults too.
It's a terrorist act.
It's meant to make you feel afraid. It's meant to make you feel powerless to take care of the situation you find yourself in.
I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?
You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
I would love to teach every kid to say "fuck." Hang on, now, hang on, listen to why. The reason is because to me, that is a word that doesn't have any effect. But "stupid" and "dummy"? You can say it to someone who is six and you can say it to someone who is a hundred and six and they will hunch their shoulders and it will be like somebody kicked them in the stomach because they are harsh, ugly words.
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.
I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE.
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.
Born ham, that's basically me.
We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm very cranky around other people.
If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.
Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.
And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.
Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.
When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
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