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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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 am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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 grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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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.
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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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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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