33 Too Good To Be True Selected Quotes From Danielle Brooks | Status Free Download
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For me, it's important to be the representation that I wanted when I was a young girl.
— Danielle Brooks
My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.
— Danielle Brooks
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your pride to really go after what you want.
— Danielle Brooks
I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.
— Danielle Brooks
I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.
— Danielle Brooks
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.
— Danielle Brooks
My biggest thing is telling a truthful story, something that is rooted in something and is very honest. If I read a script and you want me to take off my top, and it doesn't serve a purpose, then I'm not going to do it.
— Danielle Brooks
Because I've worked with Netflix from the beginning, and that's my first job, I only want to work with creators, producers, and networks that are pushing the limit and putting people on the screen that haven't had their stories told yet.
— Danielle Brooks
That's very, very important to me, to give another narrative. And Netflix has not been afraid of doing that, as we see from the plethora of shows that they have, from British shows to American shows like 'Master of None,' which I've been very grateful to be on, too. Just giving platforms to people who haven't seen themselves on TV.
— Danielle Brooks
I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I'm getting this affirmation that you're right where you're supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, 'You're not good enough.'
— Danielle Brooks
I want to be in everything, but that's because I haven't seen someone who looks like me in everything. I want to play a superhero. I want to be the love interest. I want to write my own stuff and create my own projects. I want to be in French films.
— Danielle Brooks
I've gotten rejected a lot.
— Danielle Brooks
Sometimes I need a slower pace, to slow my mind down and just be with nature, go outside.
— Danielle Brooks
I feel that we all have missions and purposes in life. Part of mine is allowing women to feel beautiful in whatever they put on - or don't put on.
— Danielle Brooks
Clothing is so much a part of who we are; that's our way of expressing ourselves.
— Danielle Brooks
I don't drink coffee, but I do try to find a way to get some chocolate in every day.
— Danielle Brooks
I grew up spending a lot of time in church, almost every day, whether in choir rehearsal or praise team or Bible study - there was always a reason.
— Danielle Brooks
I love 'Insecure.' I want to play Issa Rae's sister. I do know Issa Rae, but we ain't besties or nothing.
— Danielle Brooks
I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.
— Danielle Brooks
I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.
— Danielle Brooks
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.
— Danielle Brooks
Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.
— Danielle Brooks
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
— Danielle Brooks
I went to Juilliard, for God's sakes. I know a little something about combat.
— Danielle Brooks
I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.
— Danielle Brooks
I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says, 'Oh, if Danielle did it, I can.'
— Danielle Brooks
It wasn't until I saw 'The Color Purple' on Broadway when I was 15 that I really solidified acting is what I want to do professionally.
— Danielle Brooks
I'm a country girl. We lived in a neighborhood, but at the back of the house, there was a little pathway with a creek and a trail. And we would go there, me and my brother. It was always an adventure in our imagination.
— Danielle Brooks
I was always getting caught for running my mouth. Which is why it was the best thing for me to get into acting so I could express myself.
— Danielle Brooks
Designing wasn't something that I was always into, but I wasn't able to find clothes that I wanted to wear. I wanted to be able to walk into any store and have an idea of what I want and go and get it.
— Danielle Brooks
The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother.
— Danielle Brooks
I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.
— Danielle Brooks
You reap what you sow, and sometimes the soil can be very dry, and sometimes it will bring a lot of rain.
— Danielle Brooks
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