I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.' Danai Gurira More Quotes by Danai Gurira More Quotes From Danai Gurira I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared. Danai Gurira scaredhorrorhate I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it! Danai Gurira saltqualitycare I've always been extremely physically active. Danai Gurira physically-activeactive I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children's Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe. Danai Gurira workshophockeychildhoodchildren I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I'm a writer, I pay very keen attention to their vision. I find that so fueling creatively because, in telling those stories, you use everything you've got. You come away with battle scars. It's gratifying and invigorating. Danai Gurira youvisionworkbelieve Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It's them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine. Danai Gurira realizecreativesoulpower If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn't it affect everybody? Danai Gurira tellingwhystorytruth We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept. Danai Gurira challengebeingwomenperspective I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, 'You must tell me,' I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long - and joyful! - of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out. Danai Gurira meyoufocuslong I'm not only a person of color, I'm also a woman. And I'm not only a woman, I'm also a woman from the Third World. All those elements put together means I have a lot to do. Danai Gurira womancolortogetherworld You have to remember that you are part of a craft, and you are constantly building your craft. Ultimately, we are artists, so it comes from us. And I think the tricky thing about being an actor is that we're looking for someone else to give us something... Thinking like an artist and thinking like an out-of-work actor are two different things. Danai Gurira lookingyourememberthinking I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa. Danai Gurira parentsmyselfbornfather I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues. Danai Gurira lookinggenderpeopleway We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence. Danai Gurira someindependencefiveyears
