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.
VIOLA DAVISIn my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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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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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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