"Most actors and actresses are performative as people."

-- Zoe Lister-Jones

#People Quotes #Actors Quotes #Actresses Quotes

“I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.”
“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”
“Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.”
“The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.”
“Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.”
“The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.”
“I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.”
“The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids - when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that's happening, the system just isn't working.”

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