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… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I buy what makes my heart sing. So, it's not that I follow one specific track. It's sort of what I like. I love… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
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… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
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… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself.' — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
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… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
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.… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
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… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
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