Lorraine Toussaint Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.”

“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.”

“I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.”

“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.”

“I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”