If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVISOrdinary 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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Knowing 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.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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