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" There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.' "
Grace Gealey
Drive
You
Home
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" Do you, and the rest is background noise. "
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You
Background
" Because of the fact that being a professional actor is not a career that is widely pursued back home in the Cayman Islands, I never thought it was a viable profession. It didn't even cross my mind. So when I knew I wanted to do theater, I didn't think 'actress,' even though I loved to perform. "
Grace Gealey
Thought
Think
Professional
" Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping 'tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is. "
Grace Gealey
Shade
Tea
Tired
" The Saving Our Cinderellas program is a facet of Saving Our Daughters which is more specifically geared towards using music, theatre, film and television as a means to help build self-esteem in our girls by developing programs that allow them to discover, explore and express their individuality using the arts. "
Grace Gealey
Help
Music
Television
" I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really. "
Grace Gealey
Love
Fun
Lovely
" When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren't doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you. "
Grace Gealey
Women
You
World
" Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude. "
Grace Gealey
Make
Let Us
Gratitude
" There's competition among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of things and still be from the same culture. What I'm saying is that I've never felt like I was a light-skinned black woman. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home. "
Grace Gealey
Women
Competition
Woman
" I'm really easy to please and not high-maintenance at all. I like that chill, not stressed-out kind of lifestyle. "
Grace Gealey
Like
Kind
Lifestyle
" We need you. The best version of you. You're here for a reason, and we can't wait to see what that is. Stay in your lane. Run that race. "
Grace Gealey
You
Wait
Run
" 'Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with. "
Grace Gealey
Sibling
Black
Think
" Honestly, I'm very much a tomboy. "
Grace Gealey
Very
Tomboy
Much
" Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on. "
Grace Gealey
Rise Above
Thank God
Yourself
" I'm a night owl. "
Grace Gealey
Night
Owl
" I do miss my hair because I used to do so much stuff with it, but I do like different levels of short. I had a super short pixie before, and I loved it. "
Grace Gealey
Hair
Loved
Like
" Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended! "
Grace Gealey
Myself
My Life
Grace
" As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance. "
Grace Gealey
Child
Performance
Drama
" Bruno Mars, I'm kind of obsessed with him. "
Grace Gealey
Him
Obsessed
Mars
" There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy. "
Grace Gealey
Myself
Happy
Dance
" I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts. "
Grace Gealey
Truth
Time
Past
" Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology. "
Grace Gealey
People
Know
Support
" I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come. "
Grace Gealey
Woman
Deaf
Black
" My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America. "
Grace Gealey
Mother
Father
College
" Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?' "
Grace Gealey
Home
Friday
America
" I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh. "
Grace Gealey
Laugh
Funny
God
" I understand that there are a few roles out there and tons of actors. Just because you don't get the big break doesn't mean you're not worthy or that what you have to offer isn't valid. "
Grace Gealey
Understand
Big
You
" Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must. "
Grace Gealey
Compassion
Culture
Time
" The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely. "
Grace Gealey
Myself
Growing Up
Trying
" I used to have really long hair. It was a big fro with mad curls. "
Grace Gealey
Hair
Long
Long Hair
" Once I started to get aligned with the God in me, something hit me hard: I learned that our worth, our validation, our purpose and our acceptance don't stem from what we should do. They don't stem from what we have. They don't stem from what we've done or who we were. They stem simply from the fact that we are. "
Grace Gealey
Hard
God
Done