My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
'Grey's' has this universal, global thing to it. It works all over the world. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I really don't think there's a world in which you can do anything with anybody. Because we're in the world of the… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
What's great about Netflix is that everything is kind of instantaneous, and it goes around the world instantly. Everything is released at… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
The entire world is skewed from the white male perspective. If you're a woman, they have to say it's a female-driven comedy.… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out,… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Finally I want to say this: if you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
These days, I feel like a chunky spy in a thinner world. Strangers tell fat jokes in front of me. Jokes not… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I'd split up with a boyfriend and gone to Vermont to stare at my navel, and then 9/11 happened, and I spent… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
My philosophy was always try to look like Whitney Houston at all times. That did not work out so well. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“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… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to watch something for 14 seasons. It's not necessarily the way everything's supposed to be. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
