Lorraine Toussaint

I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to…

— Lorraine Toussaint

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

— Lorraine Toussaint

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with…

— Lorraine Toussaint

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

— Lorraine Toussaint

'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…

— Lorraine Toussaint

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

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not…

— Lorraine Toussaint

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is…

— Lorraine Toussaint

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through…

— Lorraine Toussaint

When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint…

— Lorraine Toussaint

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left…

— Lorraine Toussaint

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love…

— Lorraine Toussaint

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

— Lorraine Toussaint

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

— Lorraine Toussaint

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…

— Lorraine Toussaint

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and…

— Lorraine Toussaint

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily…

— Lorraine Toussaint

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one…

— Lorraine Toussaint

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…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that…

— Lorraine Toussaint

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with…

— Lorraine Toussaint