Words matter. These are the best Stephanie Beatriz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think, so many times in society, women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say ‘sorry’ and ‘excuse me’, and get out of the way.
Bisexuality often needs an explanation. It isn’t something you can often ‘read’ on a person, and because of that, bi people sometimes feel like an invisible part of the LGBTQIA community.
I feel like my agents are really amazing and smart.
I made good grades in school.
I remember watching ‘Colombo’ a lot with my dad. That was one of the first detective shows I remember watching. And I remember my dad turning to me – my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with ‘Seinfeld’ all the time. He did it with ‘Colombo’, too, set the scene.
That’s, to me, the ultimate goal – to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I’ve convinced other human beings that it’s a real person.
I lived in New York for a long time. Right after college I went there. So I got my first cell phone in New York. Back when you would flip the phone up. Way back when.
Nannies are amazing human beings.
I remember watching ‘Sesame Street’ as a kid and loving that there were Latino characters on there.
It’s hard to make friends as an adult. You gotta work at it, you know? You have to ask people to lunch, and if you don’t know them, it’s weird.
I moved to New York to be a theater actor. It’s what I studied and what I thought I wanted to do forever, as you do when you’re 18 and think you know exactly what you want. I was lucky enough to start working right away.
I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.
I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.
I know all the words to ‘I’m on a Boat.’
Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they’d think it was weird. I eat nutritional yeast. And sometimes I take clay shots to help pull toxins out of my body. I eat weird L.A. food, so I guess that’s probably weird in other people’s eyes.
What I would love is for a normalization of queer characters on TV.
There is no one artform that is going to satisfy all human beings, and there’s no one way of talking about difficult stuff that is going to satisfy people, period.
The playing ground is so uneven, and there have been so many straight characters for such a long time, and so many gay actors that have had to hide their sexuality to get the parts they want to play.
I wouldn’t say ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ is a really ‘delicate’ show. I would probably use a word more like ‘zany.’
I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.
There are lots of different sides to Brooklyn. It has so much character.
I’ve been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater – I’d been doing theater since college.
The majority of my job is being an open channel, and if I’m not being very authentic with who I am in myself, then it doesn’t feel like I can dig down deep and get to really vulnerable stuff, or stuff I have never felt before.
A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.
I love stories that exist in this amped-up, personal world – sort of like ‘Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,’ actually. That world really only exists inside that movie, but what a wonderful little world it is.
I utterly respect that there are lots of people who do service jobs and deserve our respect, because they make our world function.
As a kid, I really, truly believed that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, something really bad was going to happen.
You can’t live in fear all the time.
The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone a whole scene or the full episode.
People’s sexuality is often defined by who we’re partnered with at any given moment, which can be a frustrating limitation for me. I’ve had countless tiny ‘coming out’ moments in my life, often simply to explain to someone else that they have misjudged my sexuality based on who they saw me dating.
I think you can tell the difference between ‘swagger’ and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.
The majority of guys that I’ve met, that I consider confident and sexy, are pretty well rooted in who they are. They know their values and their worth as a person. They know they are intelligent, caring men, and that generates confidence.
I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.
I’m not really a super-serious person. I guess in some ways I am, but I do like to have a lot of fun. I mean, one of my favorite places in the world is Disney World, so that’ll tell you a little bit about me.
Hollywood is crazy because if you’re working, you’re constantly working. There’s all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don’t have the whole day. You’ve got a photo shoot or whatever.