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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.
- Bona Fide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020