Zitat des Tages von Courtney B. Vance:
There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.
My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.
We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.
Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like, 'Turn it off! Go to bed!'
Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.
I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
When your tummy is full - even while shooting for long hours - you feel good.
When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work.
When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.
From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.
When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?
It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.
It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.
Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.
