The Best of Angela Bassett

Lornette 'Mace' Mason
"Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason."

Betty Shabazz
"Open your eyes. Open your eyes. You can face death 24 hours a day, but the possibility of betrayal never enters your head. Open your eyes."

Reva Styles
"'Who dis?' What kind of way is that to answer the phone? Have you given anymore thought to what we talked about?"

Erika Sloane
"The IMF is like Halloween, a bunch of grown men in rubber masks playing trick-or-treat."

Dorothea
"I heard this story about a fish. He swims up to this older fish and says, "I'm trying to find this thing they call the ocean." "The ocean?" says the older fish. "That's what you're in right now." "This?" says the young fish. "This is water. What I want is the ocean." ...See you tomorrow."

Ana Spanikopita
"After I almost drowned, I decided I would never again be weaker than water, so I became a lifeguard. On my first day of training, my instructor told me that there are going to be times when you'll see someone in trouble. You're going to want to rush in there and do whatever you can to save them, but you have to stop yourself. Because there are some people you can't save. Cause those people will thrash and struggle, and try to take you down with them."

Ramonda
"Your father and I would talk about this day all the time. He is with us. And it is your time to be king."

Anna May

Diane
"I suppose I could fuck you."

Speaker Trumbull
"Alright, let's secure all nuclear sites. Get me our expert on North Korea. Then I want to speak with the premier of North Korea on a secure line. After that I want to speak with the Russians, the Chinese, the British, and the French. And set up a press conference. In that order."