I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
VIOLA DAVISWomanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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!
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