The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models’] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!
More Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes
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My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn’t have to be something you get from somewhere else.
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I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
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My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
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It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.
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The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.
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I’m extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don’t mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn’t exist, as did Oprah.
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Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn’t? These are questions that I’ve been pondering my whole life.
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Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.
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Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.
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I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there’s a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.
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I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!
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And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
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I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.
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I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
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