[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.
VIOLA DAVISWhen your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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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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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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