Words matter. These are the best Tessa Thompson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Cultural change always precedes political change.
I’m really excited about this generation of young women that can look at a screen and see some brown people in space.
Death is just a part of life, you know? It’s what makes all of life more vibrant. It’s coming whether we want to accept it or not.
I am multiracial, and I went through different phases – at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.
Time’s Up is really about safety and equity in workplaces, and that’s a very multi-layered demand.
There’s an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.
I’m sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called ‘The Huey P. Newton Story,’ and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.
What was so exciting for me about Wakanda and seeing ‘Black Panther’ was how incredible the women were in it.
It’s so rare to have an ensemble cast of women.
I guess I’m sort of just a glutton for having moments when I can just do whatever I want to, which sounds terrible.
Norse mythology is mystifying and fantastic and totally confusing, but you can draw a lot of inspiration from it.
I think I’ve realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don’t do as by the things you do.
I’m someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities.
Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.
Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she’s not the protagonist – and often, even if she is – feels like an imitation of what a woman is.
I think, as an actor, when you’re starting off early in your career, you’re kind of just seeing what lands. But ‘Veronica Mars’ definitely primed me to look for surprising, dynamic women. It took me awhile to realize how cool that job was.
The beauty of working on a show like ‘Westworld’ is we’re painting a not-too-distant future and talking about an aspirational sense of what power looks like in the future.
As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older – I realized they were really cool.
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch.
I spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe.
I like to think I’m one of the least athletic people in real life. I don’t do a whole lot when I’m left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.
There are some people who don’t want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.
I eat almonds professionally, and I can’t get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha!
The Time’s Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.
