We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
VIOLA DAVISI would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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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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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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