Acting Quote by Tracee Ellis Ross

“Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.”

Tracee Ellis Ross

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