Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.

I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.