Lorraine Toussaint

Actress

1960-04-04

Quotes by Lorraine Toussaint

• We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

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• I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

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• I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

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• I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

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• Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.

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