Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist-in-residence at the Center for American Progress. Smith is widely known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing , and as hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie . She is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize , one of the richest prizes in the American arts, with a remuneration of $300,000, and was named the Jefferson Lecturer for 2015.

✵ 18. September 1950

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Famous Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

“Each person has a literature inside them.”

Anna Deavere Smith

“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”

Anna Deavere Smith

“I do believe that character is a process, that truth is a process, and I am not interested in winning and losing…”

Anna Deavere Smith

On character building in “Wearing the Words: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith” https://tricycle.org/magazine/wearing-words-interview-anna-deavere-smith/ in the Buddhist Review (Fall 1994)