Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashād /ˈfɪliːʃəˈrɑːʃəd/is an American actress and stage director. She is known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for this role in 1985 and 1986...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth19 June 1948
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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Well, she's very different from me; beating up one's children is something we definitely do not have in common. The funny thing is, my mother always says that I'm playing her. Let's see what she says after seeing this!
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.
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He conveys the poetry, the natural rhythms, of his characters' speech. Everything - emotion, movement, thought, intention - is inherent in that rhythm. Actors sometimes like to dissect, to analyze, to do all those things actors are taught to do. But those things don't put me closer to this work's heart. I have to surrender all that. It's like going to a lake or a swimming pool. You just have to dive in, to immerse yourself. Working in his plays requires a different kind of skill. It's as if you would become a talking drum.
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The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.
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When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
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Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.
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There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
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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.
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Let’s just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart,