Alfre Woodard Quotes

#1. I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

Mary Steenburgen

#2. Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

Orlando Jones

#3. I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

Nicole Beharie

#4. 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

#5. It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while ... and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.

Jodi Picoult

#6. An assortment of soldiers and servants hurried about, finishing their duties for the day, or beginning their duties for the night, or possibly just looking busy to avoid being given additional duties.

Jonathan Renshaw

#7. How many did she kill?"
"Dozens, my Lord, until her sword was dull with the blood of her enemies."
Reign stroked the edge of the dagger with his forefinger until a drop of blood was drawn. The blood absorbed into the blade. "Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.

Danielle Monsch

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

Alfre Woodard

#9. 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

#10. When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

Alfre Woodard

#11. 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.

Alfre Woodard

#12. The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!

Alfre Woodard

#13. I have always done what I wanted to do.

Alfre Woodard

#14. His golden locks Time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

George Peele

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

Alfre Woodard

#16. I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot.

Alfre Woodard

#17. One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

Richard Bach

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

Alfre Woodard

#19. 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

#20. The best books - like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games - can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us.

Geoffrey Reiter

#21. #Dialogue does a remarkable thing in restoring mind, that is, to rescue it from authority-systems and rigid beliefs.

Anthony Blake

#22. Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.

Alfre Woodard

#23. 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

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

Alfre Woodard

#25. 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

#26. I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.

Alfre Woodard

#27. 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

#28. The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

Simone Weil

#29. Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

Alfre Woodard

#30. Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.

Alfre Woodard

#31. 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

#32. Monastery you can't retire it's forever, there isn't music, films, parties and other crazy stuff. It's about spiritual life... It becomes harder and harder!

Deyth Banger