Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
VIOLA DAVISWhen you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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