Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes - Page 3

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• Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Fun, Kenya, Topics

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I wanted Bow's hair and makeup and clothing to look like a woman who has four children, a career, and a full life. For example, she won't wear eyeshadow unless she's going out. Because it takes a lot of time to put eyeshadow on. She's a woman who has style, but it's all about functionality - she grabs stuff from her closet.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Children, Makeup, Hair

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I was recently watching Rihanna on the Billboard awards, and I was like, My God, she's incredible! And then I looked up her age [28]. She's always been talented. She's always been a star. But when you see her, she's becoming herself. It's age that happens. That's what I respond to.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Stars, Awards, Age

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Wall, School, Magazines

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Years, Class, Acting

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Scary, Acting, Exciting

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Hair, Looks, Want

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• You might be someone's favorite, but you might not be someone else's favorite. I will tell you that there was a [casting notice] that said "Tracee Ellis Ross type," but [the producers] didn't want to see me. I've been in this industry long enough to know that even if someone wants to promise me something, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. There are so many things at play. But it was flattering and exciting.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mean, Play, Long

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've written it with you in mind. But TV is a collaborative art. It involves producers, networks, studios, and many people signing off on you. And a lot of times there are deals in place - actors with studios that they're looking for shows for.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Art, People, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I was cast in a movie [originally] called Mr. Spreckman's Boat, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly. I felt like an "actress." Both of them have won Oscars - maybe that means I might one day.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mean, Gay, One Day

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, "Mom, I'm moving out! I made it!" I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Moving, College

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Getting to a place where I am comfortable saying things was hard-earned for me. I've chewed on the ground glass of my own experience. I saw Gloria Steinem speak, and I was just like, Shut the front door. She was saying that she didn't come into her own until her 40s, and she was asking herself the question, Why should she have to get married? And I just thank God someone asked that question, right? I think we're the first generation of women asking ourselves certain questions and deciding for ourselves.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Thinking, Glasses, Doors

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Beautiful, Girl, Frozen

  "'Thank God We're Getting There': Tracee Ellis Ross on the Changing Face of Movies and TV". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 16, 2016.

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• I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "'Thank God We're Getting There': Tracee Ellis Ross on the Changing Face of Movies and TV". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 16, 2016.

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• There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Indulgence

  "'Thank God We're Getting There': Tracee Ellis Ross on the Changing Face of Movies and TV". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 16, 2016.

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• Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Children, Sibling

  "Tracee Ellis Ross: The ​'Stylista' Speaking Up for Sisters". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. November 8, 2012.

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• Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Sailing

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