Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
Anna Deavere SmithI would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
Anna Deavere SmithWe who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
Anna Deavere Smith