Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaintis an American actress and producer...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1960
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We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.
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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
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I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.
Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
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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 it on the first take.
life playing work
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.
series
I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
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I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
left room trusting
Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.