A biography for Cicely Tysonhasn’t been written yet.
“I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.”
“The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.”
“The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.”
“My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'”
“I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.”