“I pounded pavements and went to every audition. That was my spirit. Work at whatever you do, whether you get paid or not.“
– Debbie Allen, Parade, November 17, 1991
Quotes
Gregory Hines on Entertainment
“The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.“
– Gregory Hines, Parade, May 31, 1992
Charles S. Dutton on the Difference Between Entertainers, Actors and Artists
“An entertainer will do anything. An actor will do most things. But an artist will only do those things he or she feels advances civilization.”
– Charles S. Dutton
Charlie Parker on Art & Music
“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
Louis Gossett Jr. on Blaxploitation Films and Black Actors
“. . . The responsibility for film imagery must be extended to the producers who come up with these scripts. The blame can’t be placed on black actors because they have to work – any place and any time they can. They have rent to pay just like everybody else.”
– Louis Gossett Jr., NY Amsterdam News, 1974
Overcoming Obstacles and Controlling Your Interests
“When you hit a roadblock in this business, you can give up, but I learned a lot and made relationships through those attempts. I decided, if I was willing to invest my money to gamble on a project I didn’t own, why not spend that money on something I could control?”
— Bryan Barber, Director of “Idlewild,” courtesy of Shadow and Act.
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