Quotes by Lorraine Toussaint - Page 1

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Psychopath
Real
Pretend
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Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Wacky
Youtube
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I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Amelia
Pride
Proud
Burst
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It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.
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I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Rice
Anne
Dune
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I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Best Work
Attached
Audition
Outcome
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As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Character
Order
Play
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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Attorney
Decent
Halfway
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You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Character
Historical
Play
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I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Small Child
Current
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I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Advocate
Brings
Fond
Occasionally
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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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Middle Class
Treasured
Teachers
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I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Teacher
Children
Class
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I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Odd
Me Born Always
Rubbing
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The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Art
Moving
Ordinary
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I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Challenges
Character
Simple
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A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Dream
People
Sleep
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My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Allowance
Window
Cover
Expose
Peek
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I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.
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Daytime
Disagree
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Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...
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Mom
Strong
Who I Am
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I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Life My Life Doing
All My Life
Meditate
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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 / Film Actress
Cameras
Rolling
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So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.
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Matter
People
World
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As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Granted
Modern Woman
Thinking
Way
Walk
Take For Granted
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'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Proof
Prove
Relaxed
Audition
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When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Art
Opportunity
Naked
Thinking
Truthful
Art Form
Eliminate
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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.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Veto
End Of The Day
End Of The Day I Am Day
Grown-Up
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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 / Film Actress
Remind
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The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Dark
Light
Share
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When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Brain
Mind
Missing
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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 / Film Actress
Angel
Fantasy
Horror
Immortal
Sci Fi
Waiting
Witch
Cast
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Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Children
Growing Up
Long
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People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Discussing
Liquid
Faith Believe I Believe
Faith Believe People
Anyway
Beliefs
Interested
Definition
Personal Thing
Rarely
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I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.
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Character
Cost
Creating
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We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
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Dark
Self
Shadow
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We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Great
Aspect
Avoiding
Confrontation
Dark
Dark Side
Direct
Energy
Reason
Self
Shadow
Most
Us
Go
Why
Side
Call
Carries
Through
Deal
Great Deal
Ourselves
Which
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Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Magic
Sufficient
The Only Thing
Trusting
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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.
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Earning
Horrific
Strict
Individuals
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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 / Film Actress
Character
Honor
Inspiration
Real
Real Character
Borrow
Flame
Receive
Small Piece
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How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Experience
Teacher
Deeper
Engagement
Higher
Within
Talk
Greatest
Quite
Determines
Walk
Personally
Push
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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.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Being There
Love Character Me
Love Always Character
Page
Unfolds
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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.
Lorraine Toussaint / Film Actress
Aspect
Components
Homework
Ignite
Magic
Charge
Lookout
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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. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.
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Keys
Magic
Together
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