The only limit to success is your own imagination.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.

When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier.

Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'