Kerry Washington

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming…

— Kerry Washington

I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was…

— Kerry Washington

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

— Kerry Washington

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in…

— Kerry Washington

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

— Kerry Washington

I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to…

— Kerry Washington

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

— Kerry Washington

My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things…

— Kerry Washington

Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as…

— Kerry Washington

Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about…

— Kerry Washington

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very…

— Kerry Washington

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way…

— Kerry Washington

When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to…

— Kerry Washington

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

— Kerry Washington

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a…

— Kerry Washington

You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington…

— Kerry Washington

You can be the lead in your own life.

— Kerry Washington

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

— Kerry Washington

I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school and that single sex education really helped me because I really…

— Kerry Washington

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

— Kerry Washington

I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.

— Kerry Washington

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our…

— Kerry Washington

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language…

— Kerry Washington

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to…

— Kerry Washington

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make…

— Kerry Washington