"I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film."

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Source : "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. June 27, 2012.

Lennie James

#Character Quotes #Television Quotes #Tvs Quotes

“I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.”
“It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.”

Source : Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.211, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.”
“On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.”
“If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.”

Source : Song: Mind your own business
“marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.”
“What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.”
“Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.”

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