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" 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

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" 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. "

" I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it! "

" I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.' "

" I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.' "

" A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation. "

" 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. "

" You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that. "

" I've always been extremely physically active. "

" Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado. "

" We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept. "

" I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people. "

" You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world! "

" I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight. "

" I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. "

" Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original. "

" I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves. "

" 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

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" I've always been attracted to action stuff. "

" I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people. "

" I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama. "