Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaintis an American actress and producer...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1960
children earning grew horrific recognize strict system
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.
clear love script turn unfolds
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.
needed veto
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.
deeper determines experience god greatest personally power push quality quite talk teacher walk within
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.
needed prove relaxed
'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 just very relaxed in it.
advocate brings fond
I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.
life
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.
series
I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
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.
Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
attached best work
I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.
might
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
aspect charge components key lookout
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.
cast immortal pleasure witch
I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.