Jesse Williams quotes:

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I'm so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.

We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.

I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.