Angela Bassett Quotes

1. I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.  







2. Film is forever.

3. (on the Tina Turner movie) Why? People keep asking me why Tina took it for so long? There are limits for her, for me, for everybody. One week was my mother's limit. It was her second husband. The man was nice and docile for four years of courtship. She got married to him on a Sunday. The following Saturday he raised his hand and fractured her nose. The next day the marriage was annulled. That was it. That's my example. So my limit is nil. For Tina, the limit was much longer.

4. I think we both have a genuine respect and love for what we do. Theater is sacred.



5. I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.



6. And what we do is sacred.

7. When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.


8. I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

9. God made a way out of no way.

10. We don't take it lightly. It impacts us.

11. I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

12. That play and those performances had a huge impact. It just changed the whole trajectory of my life. When (Jones) kills that woman at the end of the play, this simple-minded man who is gentle with a little mouse, it just spoke to my little girl's heart. I was the last one out of the theater. I was sitting there weeping.


13. I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

14. My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.



15. I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

16. The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

17. This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

18. The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

19. I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

20. I'm just so blessed to be able to do what I just love and have loved since I was a teenager, since I first found it, and to be encouraged by others for it.





21. Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

22. If you have a big voice, so be it. But if you do things quietly, so be it. It can be done. I think it was a destiny for her life.

23. I would straggle the line between being the bright and smart kid and trying to be cool in the lunch room - that sort of thing.

24. Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.



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