What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
From Phylicia Rashad
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.
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?
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