Words matter. These are the best Laura Harrier Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s natural to get nervous about anything you care about.
For me, it’s all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I’m interested in bringing to life.
I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
People are like, ‘Was it hard growing up mixed?’ ‘Did you not fit in?’ and I’m like, ‘No? What? That’s the dumbest question ever.’
I think, living in the city, it’s so easy to forget that you’re attached to the earth.
I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
I’m learning every day.
I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, ‘Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!’ But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn’t really there.
I am a black woman, and of course, that’s who I’m going to be playing, but I’m also biracial, and that’s a different side of the experience.
Even though ‘Spider-Man’ is a huge blockbuster, it really didn’t feel like that. It felt like we were making this weird, funny high school movie. Like just hanging out with a group of friends.
I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
I just hope I can still take the subway, honestly.
I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Viola Davis is incredible – she’s kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she’s made is incredible.
If you really want something, it’s nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something – you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
People just can’t wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
I thought I’d be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
In high school, my mom’s friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, ‘You should call my friend at this agency.’
We all know what it’s like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
