I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight. Danai Gurira Read Quote
I don’t care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved ‘Salt.’ I loved it! Danai Gurira Read Quote
I’m a storyteller. I’m always willing to serve the story, a story I believe in, in whatever way is necessary. If I need to write the story I believe in, I will write it. If I’ve been offered to act in a story that I truly believe in, I will happily do that, but I’m a storyteller. That’s something I’m so thankful for. Danai Gurira Read Quote
I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, ‘You must tell me,’ I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long – and joyful! – of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out. Danai Gurira Read Quote
I’m not only a person of color, I’m also a woman. And I’m not only a woman, I’m also a woman from the Third World. All those elements put together means I have a lot to do. Danai Gurira Read Quote
I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues. Danai Gurira Read Quote
