Quotes from Tessa Thompson

I was gregarious as a kid, but I think the idea of actually getting to know people, I'm just shy. It sort of takes me a minute to want to sit down and talk about myself.

I'm really excited about this generation of young women that can look at a screen and see some brown people in space.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

I spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe.

Norse mythology is mystifying and fantastic and totally confusing, but you can draw a lot of inspiration from it.

There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.

I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.

I think, as an actor, when you're starting off early in your career, you're kind of just seeing what lands. But 'Veronica Mars' definitely primed me to look for surprising, dynamic women. It took me awhile to realize how cool that job was.

'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.

I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.