Tamara Tunie Quotes
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
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We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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I always watch the work I do.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.