Phylicia Rashad Quotes

I don't want to limit myself as an actor.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

I think what's so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love - I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

I've tried to reinvent myself from time to time, and I enjoy doing movies.

I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.

With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

'While You Were Sleeping' was actually a special opportunity for me to grow up a lot.

I want to keep growing in every area.

I always wanted to do good work, the best that I was able to, to really discover myself, getting better with each role, and find newer ways to do the same thing.

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

Every new project, every new team and everything teaches you with something which you haven't learnt or done before.

I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

Each day life sends you chances to learn, grow and step into your best. Don't miss them.