Shonda Quotes
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Lesson NUMBER THREE is that ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THEY ARE DOING IT ALL PERFECTLY IS A LIAR.
— Shonda Rhimes
The only obstacle to your success is your own imagination.
— Shonda Rhimes
I am never more sure of myself about a topic than when I have absolutely no experience with it.
— Shonda Rhimes
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
— Alessandra Stanley
I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
— Lee Daniels
I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
— Lee Daniels
I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.
— Shonda Rhimes
Cristina Yang was the walking validation of my dreams.
— Shonda Rhimes
Ditch the dream and be a doer.
— Shonda Rhimes
Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.
— Shonda Rhimes
Mother is a verb, not a noun.
— Shonda Rhimes
I can experience life or I can give up on it.
— Shonda Rhimes
So you made it out of a uterus a long time ago. Big deal," I whisper. "So did everybody else on the planet. What else you got?
— Shonda Rhimes
I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.
— Shonda Rhimes
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
— Shonda Rhimes
in order to move forward you have to stop looking back!
— Shonda Cheekes
Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.
— Shonda Rhimes
Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.
— Shonda Rhimes
But we all have to acknowledge that our way is not the way.
— Shonda Rhimes
It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.
— Shonda Rhimes
Standing around like Wonder Woman in the morning can make people think you are more amazing at lunchtime. Crazy. But true. How awesome is that?
— Shonda Rhimes
I think it's well-known that I love all things ABC and Shonda Rhimes - I'm a huge 'Scandal' and 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
— Aja Naomi King
Wonder Woman is not faking it. Wonder Woman means it. Wonder Woman is all swagger and badassery. Compliment
— Shonda Rhimes
If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell.
— Shonda Rhimes
Marriage is a financial partnership. Marriage has nothing to do with love. Love is a choice we can make every day.
— Shonda Rhimes
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
— Shonda Rhimes
Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.
— Shonda Rhimes
Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He is very dreamy," she says. "But he is not the sun. You are.
— Shonda Rhimes
the air you are breathing right now is rare air. Appreciate it. And don't be an asshole.
— Shonda Rhimes
Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.
— Shonda Rhimes
Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.
— Shonda Rhimes
don't apologize for being powerful. They don't
— Shonda Rhimes
I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.
— Shonda Rhimes
Every "yes" changes something in me. Every "yes" is a bit more transformative. Every "yes" sparks some new phase of revolution.
— Shonda Rhimes
If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, then stop accepting crap and demand something more. - CRISTINA YANG, GREY'S ANATOMY
— Shonda Rhimes
The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
— Shonda Rhimes
Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance.
— Shonda Rhimes
There is victory in surrender.
— Shonda Rhimes
Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.
— Ellen Pompeo
I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.
— Shonda Rhimes
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
— Shonda Rhimes
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
— Shonda Rhimes
Cheesecake will always taste like love.
— Shonda Rhimes
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
— Shonda Rhimes
The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
— Shonda Rhimes
A hashtag is not helping. A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.
— Shonda Rhimes
Remind me to start a revolution about that later.
— Shonda Rhimes
Badassery, I'm discovering, is a new level of confidence - in both yourself and those around you.
— Shonda Rhimes
I am different. I am an original. And like everyone else, I am here to take up space in the universe.
— Shonda Rhimes
When you sit down to write every day, it becomes easier and easier to tap into that creative space inside your mind.
— Shonda Rhimes
Losing yourself does not happen all at once. Losing yourself happens one no at a time.
— Shonda Rhimes
It felt so good to write.
— Shonda Schilling
Sometimes the toilet paper does not win. Sometimes a broke woman needs the red wine more.
— Shonda Rhimes
#StopPretendingHashtagsAreTheSameAsDoingSomething
— Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes is at the top of television.
— Wes Brown
Volunteer some hours. Focus on something outside yourself. Devote a slice of your energies toward making the world suck less every week.
— Shonda Rhimes
Being a mother is incredibly important. To the naysayers, I growl, do not diminish it by calling it a job.
— Shonda Rhimes
I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.
— Shonda Rhimes
The only limit to success is your own imagination.
— Shonda Rhimes