Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Kerry Washington


American
January 31, 1977
Actress
dolomites alta badia nature
I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.


Kerry Washington
Tags: Me Always Actor
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I would wear pajamas to work every day if it were up to me.


Kerry Washington
Tags: Work Me Up
dolomites mountains italy alpine
As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.


Kerry Washington
Tags: Real Young Girl
clouds sky fire on sky heaven
I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.


Kerry Washington
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
Kerry Washington
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
Tags: Think I Think Any
I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
Kerry Washington
I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it.
Kerry Washington
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
Kerry Washington
Tags: Mom You Because
I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.
Kerry Washington
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
Tags: Like Think Really
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
I don't think I consciously say, 'What would Olivia Pope do?' but there's a new thread of belief in my own capacity that I think comes from her. She makes it happen. She figures it out. She fixes it.
Kerry Washington
Tags: Think Out I Think
I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.
Kerry Washington
Tags: Funny Me Like
I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
Kerry Washington
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
Tags: Home Me Just
When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.
Kerry Washington
Tags: Work Truth You
Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions.
Kerry Washington
Tags: Being Only Then