Trinidadian - Actress | April 4, 1960 -
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
CharacterSoulSmallFlameHonor
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.
FaithPeopleBelieveThinkYou
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.
GodPowerTeacherMyselfWalkMe
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.
ChildMeBornStrangeGrandmother
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.
LifeThinkMy LifeDoingSomewhere
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
ThinkWayHalfwayDecentActress
I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.
JusticeLightLawBecomeAlways
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
EducationWomenChildPeopleClass
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.
ChildrenSmallThinkYouAnimalsUp
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.
DaughterDayI AmVoiceEndKnow
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.
DaughterHopeExperienceNegative
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.
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