Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
No person is just one particular emotion.
I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
I literally don't think about Oscar.
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
