Tracie Thoms Quotes

Tracie Thoms — American Actress born on August 19, 1975,

Tracie Nicole Thoms is an American television, film, and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in Rent, Cold Case, The Devil Wears Prada, Death Proof, and the short-lived Fox television series Wonderfalls... (wikipedia)

The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The people who want to be discovered do theater on the side in L.A. But there are people who are very dedicated to theater who love theater in L.A.

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.