With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there’s such a powerful response from my community about what it means to have black representation on television. That response is so overwhelming and so strong that I just have to express my own gratitude for it, because I understand the necessity for it. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
I think, so often, we can let our circumstances dictate what our value is. And I have to remember that my value is the same whether I’m in the dirt or I’m picked up and dusted off. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
There was a time when I just didn’t have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life – whether it was clothes, or food, or money – and living a really bare-bones life. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
You have to practice the life you want regardless of what the circumstances are. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
There was no way to predict that ‘This is Us’ was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly – because it’s sort of like you’re supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That’s a generalization; that’s what the mentality has been. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote
It’s a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There’s this thing of, like, ‘This is a model of womanhood for you,’ but yet we find so many reasons why we don’t want to be like our mother. Susan Kelechi Watson Read Quote