Top 25 Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes

You have to practice the life you want regardless of what the circumstances are.

I’m the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of one-liners; my brothers are great at telling stories, and my mom is funny without knowing it.

I think, so often, we can let our circumstances dictate what our value is. And I have to remember that my value is the same whether I’m in the dirt or I’m picked up and dusted off.

All I can say is marriage is hard.

You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren’t able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don’t get the full life and background of that character.

So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that’s different than what you’ve been doing.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

It’s a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There’s this thing of, like, ‘This is a model of womanhood for you,’ but yet we find so many reasons why we don’t want to be like our mother.

Judith Jamison is, like, supreme.

After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.

I don’t know that I constantly think about being a black woman.

Thank God I applied to Howard. It’s where I belonged.

We all need somebody to say, ‘I love you. I see you. And I’m not going to give up on you.’ Everybody has validity. Everybody has a purpose.

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly – because it’s sort of like you’re supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That’s a generalization; that’s what the mentality has been.

I personally don’t lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I’m very intimate with what I’m saying and why I’m saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play.

I have a mole in my eye, which is a very specific thing.

That’s always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that’s who she is.

A month before I booked ‘This Is Us,’ I was like, ‘Maybe I should move to Montreal and work in a coffee shop.’

What I say is that there’s this culture and this vibe and this community in Brooklyn that’s so amazing and wonderful, and it has influence on the world. That’s the part of Brooklyn that I love and I begin to miss.

PBS was just such an awesome resource for a child‘s early development. And now I realize Mister Rogers is also an awesome resource for an adult‘s development because his philosophies are just timeless and are so relevant and are so important and are so simple and just something we can all grasp onto easily.

I’ve trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt like I didn’t have the right body for it, and I didn’t like that and never felt like I could be a part of that dance structure.

There’s light and dark in all things, you know?