Phylicia Rashad Quotes

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

- Phylicia Rashad

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

- Phylicia Rashad

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

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

- Phylicia Rashad

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

- Phylicia Rashad

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

- Phylicia Rashad

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

- Phylicia Rashad

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

- Phylicia Rashad

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

- Phylicia Rashad

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

- Phylicia Rashad

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

- Phylicia Rashad

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

- Phylicia Rashad

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

- Phylicia Rashad

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

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

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

- Phylicia Rashad

Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

- Phylicia Rashad

I am having a good time doing nothing.

- Phylicia Rashad

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

- Phylicia Rashad

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

- Phylicia Rashad

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

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

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

- Phylicia Rashad

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

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

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

- Phylicia Rashad

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

- Phylicia Rashad