brittany/brittles. twenty-one. pikachu. creative writing major. nerd. resident bitch. role-player. photoshop dabbler. movie lover. in love with beautiful celebrities. countless fandom. k-pop. "bitchy" ranter. other such things.
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brittany/brittles. twenty-one. pikachu. creative writing major. nerd. resident bitch. role-player. photoshop dabbler. movie lover. in love with beautiful celebrities. countless fandom. k-pop. "bitchy" ranter. other such things.
Charlie Rose: Are you where you thought you would be? Are you further than you thought you would be? Have you had the opportunity to show how good you are? [x]
You can be in the business for 23 years, which I have been, and suddenly something happens that wakes people up. For me, that was being in a movie with Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It makes people realize you’re there. Otherwise you’re that black girl who had a guest or costar role in a TV show here or there.
Viola Davis, LA Times Magazine
I was eight years old when I decided to be an actor. And I am just so privileged to be gazing on the beautiful face of the woman who inspired me that beautiful day, and that’s Cicely Tyson.
And when I woke up and realized how difficult it was to be an actor, and how the rejection was so high, then another beautiful face graced the screen when I was in college, and that was Meryl, who just …always inspires me.
But there’s so many people involved in The Help, in lieu of mentioning all them, I just have to say that, what is there but a dream? You can’t trade in your dream for another dream. I am so proud to be an actor, and I thank the Screen Actors Guild for this award.
And I have a special, special note to the kids in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in Segue Institute of Learning in Central Falls, Rhode Island: to dream big and dream fierce.
Thank you very much.
Hollywood is a business. And I don’t fault it for that. It’s a business about money and advertising, and we don’t translate in the foreign market. And a lot of people want to indict Hollywood for that, but I don’t think it’s just an indictment on Hollywood; it may be more of an indictment on people who go to the theatre to put their money down – to see what? You see a film with a predominantly black cast and you don’t see it as inclusive, but you see a film with a predominantly white cast and it is. Why?
I want to be a pioneer; I want to take on the responsibility and the weight of something bigger than myself, which is more diverse storylines, especially for African-American actresses. But I can only do what I do. I certainly can’t change Hollywood’s complete perception of black actresses – I need help.
My boy came to your school because they were going to kill him in the public school. His father don’t like him. He come to your school, the kids don’t like him.
One man is good to him, this priest. And does the man have his reasons, yes? Everybody does. You have your reasons but do I ask the man why he’s good to my son? No. I don’t care why. My son needs some man to care about him and to see him through the way he wants to go.
And thank God this educated man with some kindness in him wants to do just that.
It’s just till June.
