Top 25 Danielle Brooks Quotes

Personally, I don’t want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.

I don’t necessarily have one mentor or ‘a’ mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that’s always kind of served me well.

Designing wasn’t something that I was always into, but I wasn’t able to find clothes that I wanted to wear. I wanted to be able to walk into any store and have an idea of what I want and go and get it.

I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says, ‘Oh, if Danielle did it, I can.’

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That’s exciting for me.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your pride to really go after what you want.

I love ‘Insecure.’ I want to play Issa Rae’s sister. I do know Issa Rae, but we ain’t besties or nothing.

I want to be in everything, but that’s because I haven’t seen someone who looks like me in everything. I want to play a superhero. I want to be the love interest. I want to write my own stuff and create my own projects. I want to be in French films.

I don’t drink coffee, but I do try to find a way to get some chocolate in every day.

I think theater and church are so relatable because it’s traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.

I went to Juilliard, for God’s sakes. I know a little something about combat.

I’m a country girl. We lived in a neighborhood, but at the back of the house, there was a little pathway with a creek and a trail. And we would go there, me and my brother. It was always an adventure in our imagination.

Clothing is so much a part of who we are; that’s our way of expressing ourselves.

The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother.

I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.

For me, it’s important to be the representation that I wanted when I was a young girl.

I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I’m getting this affirmation that you’re right where you’re supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, ‘You’re not good enough.’

Don’t compare your career to anyone else’s. It’s tough when you’re in a business that’s competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I’m having to learn to be patient and be where I am.

In South Carolina, there’s a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she’s like, ‘Dani, what are you getting into,’ but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

My biggest thing is telling a truthful story, something that is rooted in something and is very honest. If I read a script and you want me to take off my top, and it doesn’t serve a purpose, then I’m not going to do it.

I was always getting caught for running my mouth. Which is why it was the best thing for me to get into acting so I could express myself.

I feel that we all have missions and purposes in life. Part of mine is allowing women to feel beautiful in whatever they put on – or don’t put on.

I’ve always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.

In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities.