Angela Bassett Quotes (6 Quotes)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.