Sanford Quotes

"I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were better than the white shows. The Jeffersons was a lot better. Good Times was way funnier. Sanford and Son. Now, though, everyone thinks we`re equal, so we submit the same s... that everyone else submits. And then we get mad when they won`t air it. You got to go back to the old attitude of it has to be twice as good."

I`m formally trained, I don`t know what classically trained really means. I`ve worked with Sanford Meisner. And I`ve worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.