All Quotes

"— Lenny Williamson"

"The most strongest, the most powerful, the most dangerous creature on this whole earth is a woman who knows how to think. Ain't nothing she can't do."

"Open stance!"

"When I was a little boy, I grew up in Shreveport. One day, my father took me to town. He give me this money to pay this White man for something. Back in them days, Black folks weren't allowed to touch White peoples. So I went to give the man this money, and I accidently touched his hand. And he start beating on me. He knocked me down, his friends come over, they all start stomping on me and beating on me. And I look up and I see my father in the crowd, and he took off running. Left me there with these grown men beating on me. Now, I haven't been no great daddy... but I've never done nothing but try to protect you. This next step you about to take, it would... It would be hard for anybody. But for you, you not gonna just be representing you, you gonna be representing every little Black girl on Earth. And you gonna be the one gotta go through that gate. And I just never wanted you to look up... and see your daddy running away."

"Now, I know what you thinking. 'This family is from the ghetto. How they gonna pay old me?' Well, don't you worry about that. We're not here to rob ya. We here to make you rich."

"Venus and Serena gon' shake up this world."

"You just scared. Scared you will fail. Scared that the world will look at you and see another dumb nigga. And you know what? You think they might be right. I have never, never thought that about you."

"Will Smith as Richard Williams"

"Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Oracene "Brandy" Price"

"Saniyya Sidney as Venus Williams"

"Demi Singleton as Serena Williams"

"Jon Bernthal as Rick Macci"

"Tony Goldwyn as Paul Cohen"

"Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew as Tunde Price"

"Danielle Lawson as Isha Price"

"Layla Crawford as Lyndrea Price"

"Erika Ringor as Mrs. Strickland"

"Dylan McDermott as George MacArthur"

"Andy Bean as Laird Stabler"

"Kevin Dunn as Vic Braden"

"Craig Tate as Bells (Homeboy #1)"

"Josiah Cross as TD (Homeboy #2)"

"Calvin Clausell Jr. as Homeboy #3"

"Vaughn W. Hebron as Homeboy #4"

"Christopher Wallinger as John McEnroe"

"Chase Del Rey as Pete Sampras"

"Judith Chapman as Nancy Reagan"

"Jessica Wacnik as Jennifer Capriati"

"Katrina Begin as Anne (Women's Tennis Association CEO)"

"Kaitlyn Christian as Shaun Stafford"

"Marcela Zacarías as Arantxa Sánchez Vicario"

"Rich Sommer as Patrick Dougherty"

"Erin Cummings as Social Worker"

"Colin Hanks - Gustave Gilbert"

"Wrenn Schmidt - Elsie Douglas"

"Michael Shannon - Robert H. Jackson"

"Richard E. Grant - Sir David Maxwell Fyfe"

"Lotte Verbeek - Emmy Göring"

"Andreas Pietschmann - Rudolf Hess"

"Steven Pacey - George C. Marshall"

"Animation wasn't so much an imitation of life - it was a punctuation of conversation. We always stayed on the one who was talking. It made for a very simple film that was very clear, and there were no unnecessary things going on all around the edges. If I'm going to say something to you then I'm going to do it with a certain amount of gestures; in-between the times I'm completely still. This was how we managed to get through 120 seconds of footage a day, when most studios were getting through 10 seconds. We'd never move a mouth, we'd change the expression, because people were watching the hands."

"What matters most is the story, and it should never be sacrificed to the method. These days immense quantities of money are spent making something that doesn't call for it. As a result, to raise enough backing, children's films have to be dumbed down for the widest possible market."

"Come to think of it I must have produced some of the clumsiest animation ever to disgrace the television screen, but it didn’t matter. The viewers didn’t notice because they were enjoying the stories."

"Their [politicians] words and phrases are skillfully chosen to keep us complacent and confident in our fairly comfortable world. We don’t usually notice this because ours is a world in which whether or not the words we are offered are true rarely makes much difference to our lives. But, out in the real world, the way words are used or misused can make the difference between life and death."

"That voice of his was loved by the nation. I mean, if I could've been Oliver Postgate, with that voice, and with his mind, and those wonderful, wonderful stories, I would have given my teeth. He puts his arms round you, figuratively speaking, and says "Look, it's all right. Don't worry. Whatever I'm on about at this moment, there's security here with me." And that's the voice that does it; I had to work to be loved, Oliver Postgate, lucky man, didn't."

"And they [Smallfilms] had a superb ear for creating sound effects that children could easily mimic the moment the programme had finished: just think about the swanny-whistle voices of the Clangers, the beatbox rhythm of Ivor's engine, or the marvellous carousel of just bloody lovely sounds that made up most of Bagpuss […] These are the sounds I hear in my own head when I remember my own childhood, and Oliver Postgate put them there."

"And all of these things, the selection of just the right characters, just the right soundtrack, and just the right tone is an incredibly hard thing to pull off in TV; incredibly hard. You can't fake it, you can't screw up your face and slog your way through it: it only occurs when an innate facet of someone's character is allowed to bleed into the production, giving it a unique personality and resonance all of it's own."

"Victoria Wyant — Kate"

"Gia Hunter — Erin Pinborough"

"Benjamin Cheng — Nick"