Kasi Lemmons Quotes
I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an actress and maybe this is what I'm meant to do.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
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The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
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That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.
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There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
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I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
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I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.
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We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
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I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
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The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
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And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.
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I say no to a double standard that men can roam and women must stay put at home. I say no to the fact that men are allowed to claim their sexuality and women just have to pretend that it doesn't matter to them. It's resisting poor relational arrangements. An affair is a way of saying, "No. I'm not playing by the rules." And sometimes betrayal is part of that because you deceive somebody else but you feel like you are, for the first time, being honest with yourself. Sometimes when people have affairs, they feel like they have been lying to themselves for years.
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I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an actress and maybe this is what I'm meant to do.
