Category - Louis Gossett

Jr Louis Gossett

I was down in Wilmington, Delaware, doing ‘The Desk Set’ with Shirley Booth. I was at the DuPont Hotel. I walked out, and there was this grill next door called the New England Grill. I loved seafood. They said very nicely, ‘We don’t serve colored people.’

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us – my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

When ’12 Years a Slave’ got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I’d get a lot of offers – and they didn’t come.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person – not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom – to be accepted as me.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you’ve been received well.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

There’s really nothing like a live audience right there. When you’re in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

One of my best friends while shooting ‘Roots’ was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

Jr Louis Gossett

George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those ‘Oceans’ films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.

– Louis Gossett, Jr

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