Nicole Beharie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.
-- Nicole Beharie

#Thinking #Color #Television
There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.
-- Nicole Beharie

#Struggle #Character #Sassy
Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.
-- Nicole Beharie

#Mother #Ku Klux Klan #Car
My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!
-- Nicole Beharie

#Mom #Boots #Georgia
I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.
-- Nicole Beharie

#Artist #Careers #People
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.
-- Nicole Beharie

#New York #Fun #Artist
I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.
-- Nicole Beharie

#Brother #Children #Kids
I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.
-- Nicole Beharie

#Laughing #Made
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
-- Nicole Beharie

#People #Black #Minorities
When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
-- Nicole Beharie

#Father #Littles #London

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