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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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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If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.
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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.
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Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
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How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?
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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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When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
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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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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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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!