In 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.
VIOLA DAVISI would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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 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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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