Phylicia Rashad Quotes

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

Family, Women, Person

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

Acting, Nose, Jobs

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

Birthday, Time, Women

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

Work, Talent, Value

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

Nothing, Different, Why

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

Mind, Everything, Thought

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

Great, Why, Outside

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

Love, God, Human

I am having a good time doing nothing.
Phylicia Rashad

Time, Good, Nothing

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

Love, School, Moving

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

Real, Humanity, Between

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

Crazy, Fun, Long

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

Time, Play, Why

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

Good, Live, Sun

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

True, Political, Racism

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

Heart, Theater, Faint

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

Life, Yourself, Nothing

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
Phylicia Rashad

Success, Work, Done

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

Give, Negative, Child

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

Time, While, Watch

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

Mother, Human, She

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

Moving On, Moving, Keep

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

Nature, Moving, Before

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

Education, Money, Enough

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.
Phylicia Rashad

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 19, 1948

Links

Find on Amazon: Phylicia Rashad

Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Related Authors

Marilyn Monroe
Mae West
Lana Turner
Judy Garland
Katharine Hepburn
Angelina Jolie
Marlene Dietrich
Helen Hayes
More

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us