Alfre Woodard quotes

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that. (Alfre Woodard)

And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

Alfre Woodard

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

Alfre Woodard

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

Alfre Woodard

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

Alfre Woodard

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

Alfre Woodard

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

Alfre Woodard

I have always done what I wanted to do.

Alfre Woodard

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

Alfre Woodard

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

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Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me. (Alfre Woodard)

Even in stories written by exceptional writers, even when they write a well-crafted piece...the mother is a cliché, though it might be a good rendering of a cliché.

Alfre Woodard

...When we see a film, half of what we see is what we bring to it...

Alfre Woodard

...as an actor, trying to do the best you can on a film, you think, do I say thank you or fuck you?

Alfre Woodard

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

Alfre Woodard

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

Alfre Woodard

I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.

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...I'm the ‘Southern police' on most of the projects I do...Contrary to what many people seem to believe, there is no ‘stock Southerner.' In fact, there is more variation in us than in other places...this well-known actress was playing a Southern woman, and she was cerebral. She was acting from the chest up, when she should have been acting from the bottom. A Southern woman is not who you play. A Southern woman is who you are.

Alfre Woodard