Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Rossis an American actress, model, comedian, producer and television host...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth29 October 1972
CountryUnited States of America
wall school high-school
Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.
sexy trying photographer
One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"
scary acting exciting
And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.
crazy photographer realizing
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.
mom growing-up personality
My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
mom car people
My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.
mom mean house
I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.
mom morning school
My mom didn't adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.
mom moving college
After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, "Mom, I'm moving out! I made it!" I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.
mean gay one-day
I was cast in a movie [originally] called Mr. Spreckman's Boat, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly. I felt like an "actress." Both of them have won Oscars - maybe that means I might one day.
age incredibles
I was recently watching Rihanna on the Billboard awards, and I was like, My God, she's incredible! And then I looked up her age [28]. She's always been talented. She's always been a star. But when you see her, she's becoming herself. It's age that happens. That's what I respond to.
cutting thinking choices
My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.
thinking culture shame
I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
beautiful house desire
Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.