I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Grace Gealey More Quotes by Grace Gealey More Quotes From Grace Gealey I'm really easy to please and not high-maintenance at all. I like that chill, not stressed-out kind of lifestyle. Grace Gealey like lifestyle chill easy I used to have really long hair. It was a big fro with mad curls. Grace Gealey long-hair mad hair long Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude. Grace Gealey short us gratitude life Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow. Grace Gealey better best tomorrow people In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Here's the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves. Grace Gealey respect money education love The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely. Grace Gealey i-am myself i-have-learned life I find that when I put too much makeup on, or I use a certain brand, my skin will break out. I tend to gravitate towards water-based foundations because my skin absorbs them a little better and it doesn't break out as much. I use Hourglass Mineral Veil. It's so amazing. Grace Gealey skin amazing better makeup I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh. Grace Gealey laugh god love funny I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts. Grace Gealey myself future nature light Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology. Grace Gealey eyes you technology people Honestly, I'm very much a tomboy. Grace Gealey tomboy much very honestly I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come. Grace Gealey woman i-am single black There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee. Grace Gealey meet you time sometimes I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really. Grace Gealey work fun love way My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America. Grace Gealey born mother time father I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl. Grace Gealey climb road fruit girl Because of the fact that being a professional actor is not a career that is widely pursued back home in the Cayman Islands, I never thought it was a viable profession. It didn't even cross my mind. So when I knew I wanted to do theater, I didn't think 'actress,' even though I loved to perform. Grace Gealey loved think mind home There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy. Grace Gealey myself dance happy love Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?' Grace Gealey movies never back home There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.' Grace Gealey you car girl home
