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" I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood. "
Kerry Washington
Media
Amazing
Social Media
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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
Like
Say
Tired
" When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be. "
Kerry Washington
Think
Grateful
I Am
" I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation. "
Kerry Washington
Society
Race
Myself
" Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. "
Kerry Washington
Quality
Today
Education
" Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself. "
Kerry Washington
Work
Care
Best
" People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next. "
Kerry Washington
Start
Parents
Country
" I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me. "
Kerry Washington
Talk
Personal
Me
" My mother is one of seven kids, so I have a lot of strong women in my family, and I have supportive, beautiful relationships with all of them. "
Kerry Washington
Women
Beautiful
Family
" I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret. "
Kerry Washington
Personal
Life
Secret
" I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism. "
Kerry Washington
Kind
Way
Myself
" When I read 'Ray' for the first time, I had just quit. When I read 'The Last King of Scotland,' I had just quit. I hadn't quite quit when I read 'Scandal,' but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor. "
Kerry Washington
Quit
King
Time
" I've never been comfortable being a pawn. I work with brands where I feel like I can have my say and companies that I'm proud to be in a relationship with. Partnerships take a lot of time. If I am going to put my name and my face and my energy behind something, I want it to be authentic. "
Kerry Washington
I Am
Relationship
Time
" It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration. "
Kerry Washington
People
Frustration
Life
" You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. "
Kerry Washington
Changes
Better
People
" I come from film, where I only play a character for three months at a time, and then it's done, so it's important for me to be able to put on other hats and make sure that all of the tools in my toolbox that don't apply to Olivia Pope are still in shape. "
Kerry Washington
Tools
Character
Important
" I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color. "
Kerry Washington
Back
Woman
Feel
" I really gravitate toward having all different styles in my closet because I feel like I always want to dress to fit my mood or where I am going. I do love Jason Wu; he is also a really good friend of mine, and I love what he is doing for Hugo Boss these days. "
Kerry Washington
Dress
Love
I Am
" I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. "
Kerry Washington
Say
American
Now
" I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting. "
Kerry Washington
I Am
Think
Sexy
" I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes. "
Kerry Washington
School
Child
Children
" I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! "
Kerry Washington
Immigrants
Woman
Island
" I always felt like my value was much more in my intellect than it was in my appearance, and so that's what I spent time cultivating. And some of that I get from my mother, some of that comes from the schools that I went to, and some of that comes from probably insecurity. "
Kerry Washington
Value
Mother
Insecurity
" I think Calvin is so beautiful. Oscar De La Renta is so classic. I really like the Rodarte girl; they are super-inventive, and they think outside the box. I am all over the place! "
Kerry Washington
Beautiful
I Am
Girl
" I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't. "
Kerry Washington
Feel
Out
Think
" I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking. "
Kerry Washington
Story
Business
I Am
" I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive. "
Kerry Washington
Color
More
Women
" One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best. "
Kerry Washington
Amazing
Things
Job
" Before 'Scandal,' I was actually cast in two other pilots. Both went to series, but I was fired and recast. For both, it was because they wanted me to sound more 'girlfriend,' more like 'hood,' more 'urban.' "
Kerry Washington
Girlfriend
More
Sound
" I have to take care of myself in order to live life the way I want to. It's important to have rest days. But in the long run, if I don't work out for, like, three days, I feel worse, not better. "
Kerry Washington
Live Life
Work
Run
" I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society. "
Kerry Washington
Think
Good
Life