32 Quotes by Deborah Joy Winans

I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.

That's the best worship you can get when the worship leader is there with no other intentions and ready to sing their heart out for the Lord.

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

I love the Lord. I did grow up in a gospel family.

I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.

Singing was never my thing.

'Greenleaf' is nothing like 'Empire.' I think 'Empire' stands alone in what they are doing. It's a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families - the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.

We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.

I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know that's my family's thing; that not what I do.'