More - Angela Bassett Quotes

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.

Angela Bassett

 American Actress

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.

Angela Bassett

 American Actress

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.

Angela Bassett

 Love

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.

Angela Bassett

 

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

Angela Bassett

 Love

And what we do is sacred.

Angela Bassett

 

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

Angela Bassett

 

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.

Angela Bassett

 Life

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.

Angela Bassett

 Trying

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.

Angela Bassett