After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
Alfre WoodardEven when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
Alfre WoodardA good writer - and I think it's this way with actors too - even if you have two lines, you have to do the same complete work as if you're number one on the call sheet. If you get in an elevator and somebody gets on, rides two floors and gets off, that person has a reality that goes back to when they were born. They have memories, they have people, they have a life. They are doing something right now that the camera is on them in their space. We live in our own close-up all the time.
Alfre WoodardEverybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.
Alfre Woodard