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.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Important
  • Point
  • Actress

• 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.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Always
  • Year
  • Actress

• When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Like
  • Process
  • Actress

• The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Actress
  • Only

• That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Actress

• I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Art
  • Want
  • Me

• I will offer a choice, not an echo.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Choice
  • Will
  • Offer

• I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Ready
  • Actress
  • Hits

• When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • America
  • Dad
  • Wanted

• 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.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Time
  • Model
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Filmmaker

• We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Questions

• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Money
  • Actress
  • Machine

• There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • World
  • Needs
  • Filmmaker

• I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.

  

  Nina Menkes
  • Feminist
  • Filmmaker
  • Expressing

• Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Enthusiasm
  • Obsession
  • Restless

• I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Come
  • Speaking
  • Brazil

• 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.

  

  Kasi Lemmons
  • Actress
  • Filmmaker
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