Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
VIOLA DAVISEvery artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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