I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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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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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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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 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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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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 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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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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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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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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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