Shonda Rhimes

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

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.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.