Top 18 Phylicia Rashad Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

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.

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.

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.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

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

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

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.

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.