Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes

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

Susan Kelechi Watson

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Think
  • You
  • Confident

• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Book
  • Mother

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Think
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Fighting

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Music
  • Children
  • Choices

• I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Born
  • Appearance

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Failure

• I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Crazy
  • Did
  • Romeo And Juliet

• When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Kids

• We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • World
  • Peace
  • Philippines

• I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

  

  Joe Manganiello
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Cool
  • Worry

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

  

  Susan Kelechi Watson
  • People
  • Mom
  • Just