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Top 25 Debbie Allen Quotes (2025 Update)

Debbie Allen Quote: “If you just change one person’s life, you feel like you’ve done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it’s amazing.”

1. “If you just change one person’s life, you feel like you’ve done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it’s amazing.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “In places in the world where we don’t speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.”

2. “In places in the world where we don’t speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “But out of limitations comes creativity.”

3. “But out of limitations comes creativity.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “I’m always moving forward.”

4. “I’m always moving forward.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It’s a lot of things. It’s something you can’t be afraid of, because you’ll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.”

5. “Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It’s a lot of things. It’s something you can’t be afraid of, because you’ll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It’s just not the same thing.”

6. “There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It’s just not the same thing.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “I’m driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.”

7. “I’m driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I’ve been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.”

8. “As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I’ve been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It’s called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it’s so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It’s seamless and you don’t see it.”

9. “I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It’s called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it’s so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It’s seamless and you don’t see it.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.”

10. “Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman’s body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.”

11. “The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman’s body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “I didn’t need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn’t look good in the camera or if the actors didn’t hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?”

12. “I didn’t need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn’t look good in the camera or if the actors didn’t hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.”

13. “Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “That’s the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don’t have to cover every scene.”

14. “That’s the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don’t have to cover every scene.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “Time management is a big part of the director’s job.”

15. “Time management is a big part of the director’s job.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I’ve got it. I don’t think there’s any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.”

16. “As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I’ve got it. I don’t think there’s any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.”

17. “The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “It’s kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that’s the only way I know how to direct.”

18. “It’s kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that’s the only way I know how to direct.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?”

19. “You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.”

20. “Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.”

21. “It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.”

22. “The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “I’ve had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.”

23. “I’ve had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.”

24. “There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.”

— Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen Quote: “I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.”

25. “I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.”

— Debbie Allen

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