I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. Thatโs all I was going to do. To this day, thatโs what I do. I just added movies to it.
Danny GloverThe civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on.
Danny GloverMy theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.
Danny GloverWe all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.
Danny GloverLethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.
Danny GloverNew Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?
Danny Glover