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

Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.

— Lorraine Toussaint

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small,…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel…

— Lorraine Toussaint

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments…

— Lorraine Toussaint

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

— Lorraine Toussaint

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way…

— Lorraine Toussaint

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when…

— Lorraine Toussaint

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

— Lorraine Toussaint

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to…

— Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

— Lorraine Toussaint