Kerry Washington Quotes

I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, 'What's gayface?' They were like, 'It's the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.'

Kerry Washington

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• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

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• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

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• More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

  

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• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

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• I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

  

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• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

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• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

  

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• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

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• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

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• I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

  

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• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

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• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

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• You don't have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I'm always in the gym, always training, all the time.

  

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• It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.

  

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• The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

  

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• The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

  

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• I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

  

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• I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, 'What's gayface?' They were like, 'It's the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.'

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Friends
  • Gay
  • Tired