Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.
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.
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.
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.
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 relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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.
In my work, people say I'm strong. But I'm not aware of any of it. If I were conscious of it, that can only get in the way of future performances.
We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
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.
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.
You never know what motivates you.
Cicely Tyson was once married to the late jazz legend Miles Davis.
In April 2007, actress Cicely Tyson was part of a 25-member delegation of prominent African Americans lead by cable's Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson, that traveled to Monrovia, Liberia as part of a cultural and business exchange mission.
Cicely Tyson has appeared as a model on the covers of both "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar" magazines in the 1950s.
In 1983, Cicely Tyson returned to the stage after years of television and film work, to perform in a production of The Corn is Green.
Cicely Tyson's first credited television role was opposite George C. Scott in the 1963 CBS television series East Side/West Side.
Early in her career, Cicely Tyson was discovered by a fashion Editor for "Ebony Magazine" and spent time as a model before becoming an actress and performer in Off-Broadway productions.
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