Danielle Brooks Quotes

I definitely gravitate toward characters that have a lot of integrity and it's so important to be to be working on shows that tell great stories.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

When I was working on 'Big Fan,' I didn't really feel like any lines needed to be changed or enhanced or expanded upon in any way. I thought it was a solid script. All you had to do was what it said.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

I am not a hypocrite.

You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way.

I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.

I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.

You can't just skim the surface of any role. You have to find the depths, because any other way would be dishonest.

My biggest thing is that I never want to sell out. Or be a sellout.

We obviously need to make money to survive, but we aren't going to sacrifice our creative integrity to do anything that doesn't feel like us.

As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.