After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
But I was a rebellious child, somewhat of a hippy, I guess, going to protests and didn't, at that time, want to be in a gown.
Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
Everyone has the impulse to be elite.
I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.
I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.
I have always done what I wanted to do.
I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot.
I knew that things would be told simply but sophisticated as well. And that's the way to reach children. You know, they're not aliens.
I rather go to see a good play than be in one.
I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.
I went to a Catholic high school and, unlike some parochial schools, the nuns and the brothers let us talk and explore.
My godmother was Christian Scientist, my mother was Church of Christ and my father's family was the Church of the Living God, my brother was Bahai and my dear friend was Lutheran.
My husband went into one room with a few episodes, I go into the bedroom with a few, and my assistant went into another room with a few. None of us had ever seen an episode of the show. It didn't take us long to realize I would be a fool if I didn't jump at the chance to move onto Wisteria Lane.
My mother said she didn't care where we went to church but to develop my own relationship with God, the rest is who you commune with.
Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.
There aren't many roles for black actresses who are the lovely age of post fifty.
When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love ; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
While it may seem negligible on the outside, interracial marriage and dating, is a hot topic and somewhat of a taboo, still, and quite controversial.
You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
Alfre Woodard is the youngest of three children born to her parents in Oklahoma.
Alfre has gone three for three at the Screen Actor's Guild Awards; she has had three nominations and won all three times. She has won for her work in "The Piano Lessons" and "Miss Evers' Boys" as well as her ensemble work in the comedy "Desperate Housewives".
Among the Star Trek toys released for the movie Star Trek: First Contact (1996), an action figure was made of Alfre in the likeness of her character Lili in the film.
She played Dr. Roxanne Turner in "St. Elsewhere" (1982) and years later in an episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993). Tom Fontana was a writer for the first, and an executive producer for the second.
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