Shonda Rhimes Quotes
20 quotes from Shonda Rhimes — TV producer and writer who created Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and Bridgerton..
“Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral. Pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.”
“Perfect is boring.”
“No matter how hard a conversation is, I know that on the other side of that difficult conversation lies peace. Knowledge. An answer is delivered. Character is revealed. Truces are formed. Misunderstandings are resolved. Freedom lies across the field of the difficult conversation. And the more difficult the conversation, the greater the freedom.”
“I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way, and I work really, really hard. Don't call me lucky. Call me a badass.”
“Ditch the dream and be a doer.”
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”
“You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.”
“The only limit to success is your own imagination.”
“Just do it.”
“I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan.”
“Your gender and race don't define you.”
“If you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, I'm standing here to tell you: You are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.”
“Power isn't power if you don't know you have it. If you don't know you have the power and you're not using it, then you're not powerful at all.”
“I just was a person who always said no if I felt like no was the answer, and that really threw a lot of people. But it also, I gained a lot of respect from people because of it.”
“I meet so many young women who went into science because of that show. So many young women who went to medical school because of that show. Which was completely unintended. Like, that wasn't what I thought when I was writing about McDreamy and McSteamy and all this.”
“The hum sounds like an open road and I could drive it forever. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is God's whisper right in my ear.”
“Shonda, how do you do it all? The answer is this: I don't. 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.”
“I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone.”
“Disney has made $2 billion on Grey's Anatomy. I don't have $2 billion. I've had to learn not to get screwed in this town.”
“I was really raised with a philosophy that there are no such thing as obstacles. There are no walls. There are hills to be climbed, there are objects to go around, but they're not stopping you in any way.”
