Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

- Lorraine Toussaint

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres…

- Lorraine Toussaint

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

- Lorraine Toussaint

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

- Lorraine Toussaint

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences …

- Lorraine Toussaint

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

- Lorraine Toussaint

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…

- Lorraine Toussaint

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

- Lorraine Toussaint

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be po…

- Lorraine Toussaint