Television Quotes by Shonda Rhimes

18 Television quotes by Shonda Rhimes

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Rhimes built an empire of binge‑worthy shows, and her reflections on television are as bold as her scripts. These eighteen quotes capture her drive and her view of the medium’s impact.

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I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.

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I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

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There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through…

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I'm just obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' especially Arya Stark. And I love 'Orange is the New Black,' although I just want…

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I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of…

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Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's…

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I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it…

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I binge pretty much everything. If I'm watching something, I'm bingeing it. I binged 'The Good Place' recently. 'Handmaid's Tale.'

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You don't necessarily have to watch something for 14 seasons. It's not necessarily the way everything's supposed to be.

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Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be…

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I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to…

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Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch…

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I believe that good television should be challenging and frustrating and maddening and thrilling. If you just want to see people who…

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This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of…

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You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight…

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My 15-year-old threw open the door the other day to my room and screamed, ''Freaks and Geeks' only has one season? Can…

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I always like to say our shows should be something that, you know, before 10 o'clock, if your kid wanders into the…

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I don't get to watch a lot of TV, mainly because I'm busy working. And I pretty much try not to watch…

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My philosophy was always try to look like Whitney Houston at all times. That did not work out so well.

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“Being numb no longer suits me. It’s ill-fitting and I’m antsy about it. I find myself snapping back at people more. Or writing little…

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My worst trait is that I'm an introvert. When I've led stuff, the hardest thing for me to overcome has been my natural desire…

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There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to…

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I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way…

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I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see…

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My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm…

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I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt.

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We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will…

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What I found fascinating for me was, I've never gotten so much approval and accolades and warmth and congratulations as when I had a…

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“Look. I will not be told what size to be. I do not care about anyone else’s judgment about my body. I am not…

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My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination.

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There have to be practical steps. There's no point in holding out for a magic door because there are no magic doors. You can…

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