When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVISWhen you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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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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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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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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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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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