Lorraine Toussaint Quotes
Top 20 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom.
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.
I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.
I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.
A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.
I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.
My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.