I am part of this generation with ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Peter Pan.’ I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates. Yancy Butler Read Quote
I am a contradiction myself. I’m always looking for something that scares me because when I’m not scared, I’m not stimulated. Yancy Butler Read Quote
Although I come from a family who are Muslim – my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian – my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day. Yancy Butler Read Quote
In TV, you don’t know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve. Yancy Butler Read Quote
I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, ‘Aye-aye, argh and mate.’ But, I definitely grew up watching pirates. Yancy Butler Read Quote
When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him. Yancy Butler Read Quote
They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer’s patients are that way, but many are. My mother was very difficult. She had extreme mood changes and would become fearful. Yancy Butler Read Quote
I came to New York after Bennington College and trained as a singer. I lived on the West Side and I went to my voice lessons. That was a wonderful part of my life and I really thought that I could go somewhere with my voice. Yancy Butler Read Quote
