Top 18 Tamara Taylor Quotes

As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.

It took many years of acting classes to get even remotely comfortable, but that’s OK. It helped me so much on a personal level, not to mention professionally.

I’ve noticed that wherever I’ve lived, I’ve either painted murals or done something sort of ridiculously over the top to make a space my own.

I think people can’t say anymore, ‘Celebrities should keep their political opinions to themselves,’ because we elected a reality TV star, so I think that’s off limits.

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I’m walking up. If you don’t have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

Feeling successful is internal, not external.

I saw ‘Mahogany’ and ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ when I was little and thought, ‘That’s what I want to do.’

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you’ll figure out your own beauty in time.

Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They’re the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there’s nothing in them.

L.A. has a lot of good flea markets – the Rose Bowl is always a good one. I have taken to eBay, too. Some of my favorite things – especially chairs, for some reason – I got on eBay.

L.A. is full of great hiking trails.

The world tells lots of people the light is red. You have to trust yourself and say, ‘I think the light is green, and I’m going to keep doing this.’

I was so shy, it almost paralyzed me in social settings. And as shy people know, that can become a vicious cycle: The more uncomfortable you feel around people, the more you retreat, and the more shy you get.

Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry’s first movie, ‘Diary of a Mad Black Woman.’

I try to be mindful of snacking, but salty chips sometimes sneak in. I tend to avoid sugars – luckily, I am more of a ‘salty tooth’ – but I try to keep my sugar intake to a minimum and find some healthy alternatives when a craving hits.

The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn’t become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.

Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.