Actor Quote by 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 that area…

— 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 play the…

— 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 what's current.

— 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 I was…

— 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 understand the…

— Lorraine Toussaint

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

— 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 going to…

— Lorraine Toussaint

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

— Lorraine Toussaint