One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
VIOLA DAVISKnowing 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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