#act

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. ↗

— Danny Glover

#angeles #capacity #central #environment #environmental

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. ↗

— Danny Glover

#black #called #campus #cleaver #communications

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects. ↗

— Danny Glover

#actor #african #before #bring #course

Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#hell #moore #terrific #woman

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part. ↗

— John Glover

#artist #come #get #go #hard

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged. ↗

— John Glover

#any #cutting #discouraged #flame #open

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#because #bird #butterfly #characteristic #his

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#attracts #most #only #our #reveals

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession! ↗

— Mark Goddard

#better #cameo #career #doing #done