Cicely Tyson quotes

Cicely Tyson quotes

A collection of the Cicely Tyson quotes from around the net and Cicely Tyson quotes from my “Cicely Tyson quotes” books, I hope you find the Cicely Tyson quotes you are looking for.

“You never know what motivates you”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop, it is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance”
-Cicely Tyson quotes 

“Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress, I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“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 that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“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 the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“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 of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“You are limiting yourself if you only do roles that are positive for black women, but I decided early on in my career I would only do those roles. I almost did a blaxploitation movie. I read the script and had to retch. I knew if I did it, I would have spent the money on a psychologist”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“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 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.”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“You never know what motivates you.”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“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 her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that’s the juice that kept me going”
-Cicely Tyson quotes

“We have to support our own films. If we don’t, how can we expect others to support them?”
-Cicely Tyson quotes