“There’s never been a good actress who couldn’t register sex appeal if the role called for it.” — Dorothy Dandridge
Photo: The Decks Ran Red (1958)
“It is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.” — Dorothy Dandridge on prejudice.
Photo: The Decks Ran Red (1958)
“We Negroes finally convinced the entertainment world not to stereotype us as just maids, porters and so on. But now too many producers are afraid to call us at all. Rather than do wrong, they do nothing.” — Dorothy Dandridge
Source: Hal Humphrey (1962)
“Producers, movie fans, most people see me only as a wild, sexy creature, but I’m not like that at all. It bothers me terribly that I am thought so. It’s a real problem with me – a real handicap.” — Dorothy Dandridge
Source: 1958
“As an actress, I will attempt to create any role. But I don’t want to be identified with only one kind.” — Dorothy Dandridge
Image: Carmen Jones (1954).
