"I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children."
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"The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles."
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"I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing."
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"I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women."
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"I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there."
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"I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy."
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"Strong women leave big hickies"
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"Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers."
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"It was very tough with Madonna at the beginning of the meeting because I was very embarrassed. But I'm a strong woman who knows what I want and what I'm doing, and I think that when you have very clear ideas in your life, you can have conversations with everyone."
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"I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good."
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"When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone."
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"I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women."
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"I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex."
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