If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVISUltimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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