Anna Deavere Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Anna Deavere Smith quotes and sayings page 3 (74 year old actress). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 68 we have for her.
“Each person has a literature inside them.”
“I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.”
“You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.”
“I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.”
“I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.”
“When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.”
“I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.”
“There's not a lot of flash about me.”
“I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.”
“I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.”
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