Shonda Rhimes

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

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

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

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

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.

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