121 Quotes by Tavis Smiley

There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves democracy. I'm all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.

Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American people." I prefer the phrase fellow citizen because there's a power in that, there's a responsibility, there's a duty in using that phrase fellow citizen.

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater