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"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear."

"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
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"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'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."


"I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do."


"When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges."


"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."


"That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in."


"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."
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