Rashad Quotes & Sayings

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. — Phylicia Rashad

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed. — Condola Rashad

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy. — Rashad Evans

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. — Phylicia Rashad

I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway. — Condola Rashad

Where the women go, the culture goes. — Phylicia Rashad

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works! — Condola Rashad

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode. — Condola Rashad

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure. — Phylicia Rashad

The big challenge is finding something new without changing completely what you've already done - going deeper into what you've already done and discovering new things while carrying out the same intention. — Condola Rashad

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality. — Condola Rashad

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. — Phylicia Rashad

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself." — Condola Rashad

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts. — Condola 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. — Phylicia Rashad

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. — Phylicia Rashad

I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school. — Condola Rashad

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago. — Phylicia Rashad

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things. — Rashad Evans

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't. — Condola Rashad

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place. — Condola Rashad

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems. — Phylicia Rashad

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot ... — Phylicia Rashad

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

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise. — Phylicia Rashad

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career. — Condola Rashad

I used to wonder how a man working for the saintly organization of the saintly Dr. King could find himself in such a sinful place. But I'm no saint although I'm a good Christian, and even the best Christians are more familiar with sinners than saints. — Rashad Harrison

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? — Phylicia Rashad

When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is yourself. — Phylicia Rashad

The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me to see the process - not just the result, the red carpet, all of the wonderful, fun things that happen afterwards - the nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty, "Let's try to build this character from the page," tech rehearsals. — Condola Rashad

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being? — Phylicia Rashad

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. — Condola Rashad

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years. — Condola Rashad

I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes. — Rashad Evans

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'" — Condola Rashad

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. — Phylicia Rashad

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing. — Rashad Evans

[ ... ] he had his hand on your -" He put his hand at waist level behind me, without touching me.
"He had his hand on my ass?"
"No," they said.
"Behind your back," Rashad said. "Like you're dating or something." He put his hand behind Skip's back. Skip hit him. — Jennifer Echols

My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place. — Rashad Evans

William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience. — Condola Rashad

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give. — Phylicia Rashad

Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself. — Ahmad Rashad

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

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. — Condola Rashad

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. — Phylicia Rashad

The sight of a cross on fire should be unsettling to any true Christian. To a Negro it is worse. A unique kind of fear enters your mind, one perfected by the South: that you could die for the most harmless of offenses. You could die just for the crime of living. — Rashad Harrison

I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects. — Condola Rashad

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake. — Phylicia Rashad

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion. — Condola Rashad

There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story. — Condola Rashad

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around. — Condola Rashad

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track. — Condola Rashad

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas. — Rashad Evans

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart. — Phylicia Rashad

[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that. — Condola Rashad

[22:70] Do you not realize that GOD knows everything in the heavens and everything on earth? All this is recorded in a record. This is easy for GOD to do. — Rashad Khalifa

You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place. — Condola Rashad

My favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them - you're able to go full-on into the story versus talking about edgy this moment was. — Condola Rashad

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing. — Phylicia Rashad

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it. — Condola Rashad

If you pray why worry, and if you worry, why pray. — Rita Rashad

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together. — Condola Rashad

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is. — Condola Rashad

I am having a good time doing nothing. — Phylicia Rashad

My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength. — Rashad Evans

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. — Phylicia Rashad

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? — Phylicia Rashad

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas. — Rashad Evans

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me. — Rashad Evans

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. — Phylicia Rashad

Before a fight I'm always afraid ... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel. — Rashad Evans

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway. — T.I.

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

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. — Phylicia Rashad

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. — Phylicia Rashad

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. — Phylicia Rashad

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent. — Rashad Evans

I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that — Rashad Evans

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself. — Phylicia Rashad

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent. — Rashad Evans

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible — Rashad Evans

Life is a celebration ... I try to enjoy it as much as possible. — Rashad Evans

It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me. — Rashad Evans

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion. — Condola Rashad

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere. — Condola Rashad

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. — Phylicia Rashad

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. — Phylicia Rashad

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you're at your weakest. — Rashad Evans

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks ... When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak. — Rashad Evans

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was ... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things. — Queen Latifah

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. — Phylicia Rashad