Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
VIOLA DAVISI can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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