For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
I was a political science major in college because that’s where my head was. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we’d be OK. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
Out of the blue, I received this offer and invitation to be a part of this movie, ‘The Good Dinosaur.’ I turned to my Pixar experts, my kids, and asked them what this could all be about. Of course, they flipped out, and it was pretty obvious from their reaction that I was going to do this. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
That period, doing ‘Angels in America’ in ’94 and then filming with ‘Basquiat’ in ’95, those were gateway years for me as an artist. Two gateways, one into the film industry and one into the world of theater, each formative to me in different, equally essential ways. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
When I think back on the work that I’ve been able to do and the work in my career of the highest quality, a huge portion of that has been on HBO. That didn’t happen by accident. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
