When you’re playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That’s what I love about what I do. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
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. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I’m there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it’s done to her so that she doesn’t do it to others. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
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. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children – very, very strict – a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education. Lorraine Toussaint Read Quote
