Kerry Washington Quotes

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.

Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Everyone's path is their own.

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

I want to follow my path.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Life choices and projects and photo shoots, I can't base them on anybody else but myself. I've done things where I'm like, "Do I want my dad to see this? I don't know!" But the best lesson I can teach my sisters, or any younger women, is "Do what YOU do. Don't follow me, follow you."

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

My life and career is my own adventure.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

Everybody makes his path differently.

You can stay true to yourself and your friends, you can do the right thing, you can do with your life whatever you want to. I think that's a lovely message.