Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaintis an American actress and producer...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1960
anyone bring disagree
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.
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.
praying rubbing
I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.
character creating cost
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 of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.
keys magic together
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. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.
real inspiration character
When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
dark light share
The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.
people world matter
So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.
dream sleep people
A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.
character play historical
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.