If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVISI want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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.
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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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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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