Each role has its own different challenges.
VIOLA DAVISSometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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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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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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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 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 have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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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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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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