Words matter. These are the best Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In the context of our world, sizes 8 and 10 are teeny, but not for Hollywood. I had to ask myself, ‘Do I want to be somebody who worries about what I’m eating? Or do I want to find a balance where I can be healthy and not consumed by that and maybe have to buy some larger pants?’ I bought new pants.
My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.
In this day and age, I ask anyone I date right away: ‘Are you married? Are you in a relationship with anyone? Does anyone think they’re in a relationship with you?’ And by the way, if someone says, ‘Yes, I am dating other people,’ that’s not necessarily a deal breaker. But you have to communicate it, not hide it.
I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.
I think my biggest tip – and I consider it a part of my beauty routine – is getting my sleep, without a doubt. I do a true eight hours.
My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.
I don’t have children. I don’t know how I would feel if my child brought home a different race boyfriend or girlfriend. I don’t think I would have any issue with it. But I have no litmus test for that.
Having been in the business for a while, I never like to look forward. You kind of enjoy what’s happening while it’s happening and leave the rest up to God, the angels, the trees, the stars – whatever you want to call it.
The national treasure that is Diana Ross is a dim light compared with who she is as a mother. My mom paved the way not only for my career but also for who I am as a human being.
As a woman of color, we’re raised to know we have to be twice as good.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a hero, to have played different comedic roles. She gets sexier, funnier, and better with time.
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.
I am a connoisseur of products. I check out everything, I try everything.
Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you.
We should all do what we can in our daily lives to remember that we are glorious and powerful.
On ‘Black-ish,’ I like my makeup to be really natural – so much that I can do it myself. My character is a mother of four and a doctor and a wife, who would not have time to be putting on eyeshadow or curling her lashes.
I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.
I used to literally collect friends that had hair like me. And it would start like this: ‘What kind of products do you use?’
I’ve heard people say, ‘Why do you have to do a show that’s called ‘Black Girls Rock’?’ or ‘Why is there an expression called ‘black girl magic’?’ You know, when you say, ‘Save the dolphins,’ you don’t mean, ‘I don’t like whales.’ That’s just not the way it works!
I eat in the same philosophy that I live with: joyfully!
I’m toned, but I’m not cut. I like a little jiggle!
‘Blackish’ is set in current times. So, doing a police brutality episode in current times when kids are watching our show, it gives them an access point to have these kinds of conversations as family.
So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I’ve come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me – unless it says run, and then I run.
When I’m not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it’s time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite ‘milkmaid’ braid.
There’s no way you can go home and learn lines, because you need to go home and sleep. So I’ve figured out systems. I order two lunches so I can eat dinner before I leave work, so when I get home, I can just go to bed.
I have a vocabulary in clothing. It’s like a whole language.
It is important for me to feel like myself on a red carpet – not the way somebody else thinks I should look.
Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn’t think it applied to me.
I think it’s possible to have a vision for your life that goes beyond any circumstance of anything that you’ve ever seen, and I encourage people to do that. But I don’t think that any of us can do that in a vacuum.
Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.
I think, for me, my goal is to continue to be teachable. I can’t see around corners, but I want to be able to walk enough in my life where I go around more corners than I ever thought I could go around.
Every two months, I’ll get a trim, and every two years, I’ll get a cut. And my night ritual is that I go to sleep. I don’t wrap my hair, I don’t bun my hair, I don’t do crap!
I’m always touched by people’s different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.
My weight fluctuates. I have years where I wear a size 10, and years where I wear a size 4.
If you look back at what I believe and what I stand for, I am certainly a proud feminist.
Career-wise, there are so many things where you don’t get what you think you want. I’ve had to make space for, ‘Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?’ Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.
Everyone’s always like, ‘Be your best self!’ And that drives me bananas, because when you’re not, it makes you feel really bad.
I don’t do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.
I’m attracted to bold women – I collect them. I met one of my best friends when we both were about 22 and working at ‘Mirabella’ magazine. I was wearing this blue dress I had borrowed from my mom, and I didn’t know I had deodorant lines all over it until my friend signaled to me.
I think that complicated, nuanced, deep, heavy – that’s the place to go. That’s what makes a great show. That’s what all of us deal with in life.
Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.
I don’t always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I’m a rock star at being human.
I don’t really talk about my personal life. It’s a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you’re dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.
I have started using the expression ‘compassionate activism’: It’s about keeping my heart open so that I can understand the point of view of the other person.
There are things about my body that I don’t love, but I’m not trying to look perfect every day – I’m trying to look like me!
Red carpet is a little bit scary. It’s not about expression. It’s about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It’s a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage.
I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair.
Because of my unique experience as my mom’s child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.