How would Phylicia Rashad spend her Mothers Day?
I like to be quiet on Mother’s Day. I like to be very quiet. I don’t like to go to restaurants or luncheons. Mother’s deserve a quiet day. I remember when my daughter was very, very young and she asked, “What would you like? Would you like to do this, do that?” And I said, “If somebody really loves me, they would take her to the zoo for the day. All I wanted was to be quiet!” How special was your time with Bill Cosby? Child, I worked with the king! I worked with the master; the one who knows. Yes, I did! That is a privilege, a rare privilege. I loved going to work every day. And I had no idea how much I was learning. I’m still becoming aware of how much I learned, because he gave everything. There’s only one, and he’s it! What was the greatest lesson you learned from him? I’ll give you the great lesson and the recurring lesson. It was to respect the audience because the audience is intelligent, not dumb. And that’s why his work stands out the way it does. He programmed his show, as he
