Words matter. These are the best Deborah Joy Winans Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have 18 or 19 first cousins, and we’re all very close.
We’re a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.
I enjoy working. And, I really enjoy the fact that I get to do what I love and call it work.
To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, ‘That’s my song!’ It’s amazing.
I love the Lord. I did grow up in a gospel family.
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.’
Greenleaf’ is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.
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.
My parents would take us to double-feature movies on the weekends, and I would just point at the screen and tell them that that’s what I wanted to do.
Everyone is human, and everyone makes mistakes.
My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.
I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.
I think my biggest thing is if you don’t believe in you, then others are not going to believe in you.
My Auntie CeCe – I can kind of joke and say all I need to do is pray. But that’s literally what she does… She lives what she sings. I’ve learned a lot about her in that way, so in bringing her to the stage, I knew what sort of demeanor she needed to have. Her songs are very reflective of who she is in real life.
I love my family’s music because I love it. It’s good. I listen to the Winans all the time. I listen to BeBe and CeCe. I listen to Angie and Debbie. I listen to Uncle Daniel. I listen to Phase 2, my two brothers and my two cousins. I think they’re incredible.
‘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.
I often joke with my husband and say to him, ‘You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That’s all I know how to do.’ LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn’t expect too much from me.
I just entered the wonderful world of 40s, so anything anti-aging, I’m jumping on.