Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
VIOLA DAVIS
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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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’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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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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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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