Acting’s not about nose jobs and liposuction. It’s about being truthful to what you’re doing. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one’s talent or value. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let’s not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it’s not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It’s not stagnant. I don’t get upset about it. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
There was a time when I couldn’t watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it? Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that’s really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do – that has nothing to do with anything. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin. Phylicia Rashad Read Quote