Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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They say the two most important days in a person’s life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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