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When I go home to visit, they never treat me like a celebrity. They still treat me like TJ. If I leave dishes in the sink, they'll let me know.
Taraji P. Henson
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Taraji P. Henson
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 11
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In my mind I'm like, No, Katherine Johnson it was you. It was your mind alone that got John Glenn to orbit the earth. He didn't say, Go get so in so. He said, Go get that smart girl. But that fact that that she sees the we in I, blew me away.
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Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes danced when she talked about math and how she wanted people to fall in love with numbers the way that she did. If I had a teacher like that, I could have been a rocket scientist.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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When I get that question, about diversity, I don't go, Yeah, well you know they don't pay me. That's not my story. I own six properties Hollywood has been damn good to me. Now you can ask me, Have they paid you what you deserve? That's the question, but you'd have to go to the studios, I don't know. I do the work!
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I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
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I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?
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I like to be scared. I don't like feeling like Oh, this is going to be a walk in the park. If I ever get to that place, I'll just stop acting.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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My first big heartbreak proved to me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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With camera phones and, you know, iPad's and cameras at stoplights, it's like I just want to drive around with a bag on my head because I just feel like everyone's watching.
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I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, How as a Black woman did you do your work in NASA? They were misogynistic, and I'm sure you got called the n-word. She was just like, Well, that was the way it was. I just did my job. I wanted to do my job. She was just so humble.
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When you are portraying a person that is very real, in my case, Katherine Johnson is still alive, she is 98-years old there is a responsibility to get it right. I guess the biggest thing that I took away from Katherine was her humility. When you talk about superheroes there are selfless, they don't think about themselves, they put humanity first.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, Oh, well, that's not for me. At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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