Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
VIOLA DAVISThey say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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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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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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[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.
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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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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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