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Lorraine Toussaint
Trinidadian
Actress
Born:
Apr 4
,
1960
Always
Character
Life
Me
Think
You
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We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Lorraine Toussaint
Life
Great
Dark
Great Deal
Dark Side
Energy
Side
Ourselves
Carries
Shadow
Direct
Through
Self
Most
Call
Deal
Go
Which
Confrontation
Us
Aspect
Reason
Avoiding
Why
'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
Lorraine Toussaint
Relaxed
Proof
Feel
Because
Audition
Prove
Very
Just
Anything
Interesting
Body
Needed
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.
Lorraine Toussaint
Art
You
Opportunity
Naked
Think
Incredibly
Would
Would-Be
Vanity
Art Form
Left
Truthful
Any
Form
Eliminate
Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
Lorraine Toussaint
You
YouTube
Wacky
Get
Anything
Need
When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
Lorraine Toussaint
Character
You
Soul
Honor
Flame
Way
Some
Borrow
Small
Inspiration
Small Piece
Piece
Real
Real Character
Person
Just
Want
Receive
Playing
Need
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
Lorraine Toussaint
Life
My Life
Somewhere
Before
Think
All My Life
Since
Around
Doing
Been
Began
Then
Meditate
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
Lorraine Toussaint
Made
Think
Way
Like
Attorney
Halfway
Were
Decent
Might
Actress
Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.
Lorraine Toussaint
Love
Character
Sometimes
Will
Once
About
Direction
Go
Cameras
Than
Expected
Rolling
Different
Start
I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.
Lorraine Toussaint
Me
Waiting
Angel
Reading
Own
Pleasure
Kind
Immortal
Some
Someone
Horror
My Own
Cast
Witch
Sci-Fi
Because
Fantasy
Much
Keep
I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
Lorraine Toussaint
Book
Every
Anne
Read
Dune
Rice
Series
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