Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
VIOLA DAVIS
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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