Alfre Woodard Quotes

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn`t need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It`s especially with the play, which I can do because it`s a limited run.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let`s just put it this way. Bree hasn`t seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn`t know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it`s a very special thing. What`s familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love ; it doesn`t happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they`re suddenly together.

After 9/11 and the impending actors` strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot.

I`m a mom and a wife. That`s what I do in the world. That`s my identity. Second, I`m an actor.

I knew that things would be told simply but sophisticated as well. And that`s the way to reach children. You know, they`re not aliens.

And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

I have always done what I wanted to do.

My mother said she didn`t care where we went to church but to develop my own relationship with God, the rest is who you commune with.

(On her marriage) "We were both taught `you pick your friends on how they treat you - not by what they have or what they look like.` We get twice the cultures."

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

I can`t say too much about it because I don`t know a lot. We`re not told what`s in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it`s fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.