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Taraji P. Henson

Taraji Penda Henson (/təˈrɑːdʒi/ tə-RAH-jee; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, singer, and author. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest-roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). She received praise for playing a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005) and a single mother of a disabled child in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); for the latter, she received Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress; for the former, she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination. In 2010, she appeared in the action comedy Date Night and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid.

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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

Certain, Kind, Look, Looks, May, Sad

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Actor, Believe, Scene, Selfish, Team

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.

Camera, Cameras, Head, Ipads, Phones

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.

Animal, Fashion, Fly, Living, Sake, Thinking

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

Busy, Cousin, Function, Functions, Make

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

Choose, Dark, Journey, Mean, Turn

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

Car, Delicate, Good, Help, Men, Sky

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.

Humility, Real, Responsibility

You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life.

Crying, Issues, Laughing, Next Day, Same

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Complete, Hands, Happy, Lies, Lying, Men

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.

Black, Black Women, Humble, Johnson, Misogynistic, Things

It's an important moment. I just feel like I want it to happen tonight, either for myself or Viola [Davis] so we can get past it, so it's not big news anymore. I mean, it is 2015. We have a black president.

Black, Happen, Mean, News, Past

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.

Dishes, Home, Leave, Let, Sink, Treats

So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.

Case, Jerk, Moving, Plan, What If, Work Out

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Comedy, Drama, Feels, Like, Strength

I don't think about other people. They are not walking in my shoes. They are not paying my bills. What makes me happy is when I do what I like to do, for me.

Bills, Happy, Make Me Happy, People, Shoes, Thinking

There is always going to be love versus hate; we struggle with that as humans within ourselves every day; as a society, we have to struggle. So when you wake up, you have to decide which side you're going to be on. Hopefully, that side is positive, so you do the work and hope that your legacy will help change things.

Decide, Hate, Hope, Legacy, Struggle, Work

Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.

Directors, Exactly, Helping, Helps, Pages

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

Actresses, Believe, Comedic, Everybody, Think, Thinking

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.

Bow, Careers, Greatness, Like, Think, Thinking

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