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Tamara Tunie
American
Actress
Born:
Mar 14
,
1959
Always
Because
Focus
Home
Time
You
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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.
Tamara Tunie
Love
Home
Happy
World
Stage
Live
Immediacy
Television
All The Difference
Performance
Most
Makes
Audience
Always
Difference
Your
Live Performance
Film
Film And Television
I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
Tamara Tunie
Day
Every Day
Every
Columbus
New
Italian
Irish
Yorker
New Yorker
Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.
Tamara Tunie
Time
You
Focus
Own
Control
Take
Executing
Understand
Audition
Intended
Really
Your
Prepared
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
Tamara Tunie
Woman
Theatre
Roof
First
Down
Virginia
State
Maggie
Cat
Hot
Tin
African-American
Upside
Upside Down
Turned
Richmond
Play
I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
Tamara Tunie
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Like
Lot
Done
Lady
Want
Eva
Play
I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
Tamara Tunie
Running
Come
Always
Up
Show
I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
Tamara Tunie
Blood
American
African
Native
Native American
European
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.
Tamara Tunie
Family
History
Heritage
Our
Embraced
Access
Line
Lot
Up
American
Native
Native American
African-American
Grew
Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.
Tamara Tunie
You
Nurture
Though
Married
Individuality
Individuals
Still
Your
Even
Grow
You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
Tamara Tunie
You
Marriage
Become
Those
Evolve
Structure
Takes
Support
Individuals
Pillars
Continue
Order
Your
Grow
Two
I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
Tamara Tunie
Home
Family
Thirty
New
Proud
Still
Years
York
New York
Pittsburgh
Lived
Now
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tamara Tunie
First
Carnegie
Musical
Musical Theater
Studied
New
Did
York
Moved
New York
Theater
University
There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
Tamara Tunie
Time
Singing
Lost
Range
Ability
Had
Been
Lot
Shrunk
Actually
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.
Tamara Tunie
Life
Health
Family
Challenges
Financial
Challenge
Everybody
Crises
Some
Had
Look
How
Them
Full
Here
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
Tamara Tunie
Time
Great
You
Luxury
Television
More
Because
Than
Movie
Working
Film
The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
Tamara Tunie
Stage
Mediums
Camera
Front
Different
Working
Requires
Each
Techniques
Two
Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
Tamara Tunie
Woman
Brown
Known
Always
Been
James
James Brown
Fortunately
Showbiz
Compete
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.
Tamara Tunie
Parents
Few
Club
Would
Wilson
See
Temptations
Supper
Take
Name
Like
Nancy
House
Up
Grew
Pittsburgh
Holiday
Us
Regularly
Sarah
Acts
Mills
Ben
I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
Tamara Tunie
Singing
Missed
Performing
Nightclub
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
Tamara Tunie
Me
Living
Firmly
New
Feet
Least
Real
Very
York
Just
New York
Ground
Planted
Keeps
I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
Tamara Tunie
Time
Business
Long
Long Time
Clear
Real
Been
Very
Fleeting
I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
Tamara Tunie
Home
Everyone
Born
Knew
Like
Well
Because
Always
Normal
Up
Grew
Raised
Funeral
I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
Tamara Tunie
Job
Beauty
About
Drugstore
Get
Affordable
Done
Products
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