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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What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
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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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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!
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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 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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Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
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Let’s just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart,
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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.
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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.