Lynn Whitfield Quotes

Lynn Whitfield

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 6, 1953

Law enforcement agents need to be vetted more thoroughly and psychologically and emotionally to see who they are, if they're really built for fairness in all communities.

Lynn Whitfield

Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.

Lynn Whitfield

I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company in Washington, D.C. When I graduated, I had the great fortune of being in the Los Angeles production of 'For Colored Girls'... And all these years since, I've done stage work.

Lynn Whitfield

Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.

Lynn Whitfield