Latanya Quotes

#1. It was fun to be in a scene again with [my wife LaTanya Richardson]. We used to do plays together all the time. We hadn't really worked together since Losing Isaiah [1995]. That was kind of early on in both of our cinematic careers. Things have changed a little bit since then.

Samuel L. Jackson

#2. Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

LaTanya Richardson

#3. We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Pablo Casals

#4. If something in your gut is telling you that something is wrong, follow it, because the feeling isn't there for nothing.

Latanya Cyrus

#5. Acting is in your soul.

LaTanya Richardson

#6. I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.

LaTanya Richardson

#7. I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

Al Pacino

#8. Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

Lin Yutang

#9. In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

LaTanya Richardson

#10. Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

LaTanya Richardson

#11. Lucille," Norma Jean whispered loud enough for me to hear from my foliage hideout. She leaned over her walker and adjusted her glasses. "Is that Willis Harvey up front by Elsa?"

"Well, pinch my pooch, I believe it is," Lucille said. "I barely recognize him with his clothes on.

Ann Charles

#12. There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Lauren Bacall

#13. I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

LaTanya Richardson