Condola Rashad Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'"

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.

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

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

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

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.

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.