Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes - Page 2

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• Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Art, Mirrors, Trying

  "'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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• Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Acceptance, Journey, Hair

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Eye, Hair, Personality

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Dec 22, 2012

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• I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Night, People, Dating

  "5 Questions with Tracee Ellis Ross on 'Reed Between the Lines' & a 'Girlfriends' Reunion?". Interview with Brinti Danielle, www.essence.com. October 11, 2011.

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• When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite "milkmaid" braid.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Hair, Buns, Ponytails

  "Face Time | Tracee Ellis Ross". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I don't have the luxury of not going to work when I don't feel up to it. Most people don't. On those days, I acknowledge I am feeling f-cking crappy, and I'm not at my best, and I still want to or need to keep walking forward. I have to do some of my best work on my worst days. I have to look pretty even when I don't feel pretty. There's a way to hold both things.

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  People, Feelings, Worst

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• I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Mean, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Couple, Appreciate, Love Respect

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• There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Able, Way, Asks

  "Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer and Comedy Actress A-List in Raunchy, R-Rated Roundtable" by Stacey Wilson Hunt and Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 27, 2015.

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• My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Cutting, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren't exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.

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  Husband, Eye, Reflection

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If I'm going to show cleavage or chest then I don't show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Covered Up, Legs, Cleavage

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Mar 19, 2013

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• I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

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  Children, Play, Ideas

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

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  Makeup, College, Expression

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Growing Up, Personality

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

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  Mom, Jobs, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Sexy, Talking, Trying

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• [Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Girlfriend, Mean, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I sometimes think to myself, you're not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the TV with your DVR. As much as it's great, and there are so many good shows on TV, and I have great books that I'm reading, get out and interact with people.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Book, Reading, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Black, Different, Way

  "'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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• It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

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  Crazy, Photographer, Realizing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom didn't adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.

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  Mom, Morning, School

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. I think that's the genius.

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  Character, Thinking, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Couple, Husband, Character

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Fashion, Organization, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Nov 11, 2013

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