Viola Davis on mistake
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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.
Viola DavisViola Davis I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
Viola DavisViola Davis You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
Viola DavisViola Davis I 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.
Viola DavisViola Davis When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
Viola DavisViola Davis Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
Viola DavisViola Davis I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
Viola DavisViola Davis 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.
Viola DavisViola Davis People are just not impressed by me at home.
Viola DavisViola 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.
Viola DavisViola Davis I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
Viola DavisViola Davis When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
Viola DavisViola Davis I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
Viola DavisViola Davis 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.
Viola DavisViola Davis You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
Viola DavisViola Davis I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
ThucydidesThucydides Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
Nicole KidmanNicole Kidman I’ve made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I’m so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I’m a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.
50 Cent50 Cent Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.
Gabrielle BernsteinGabrielle Bernstein All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
SophoclesSophocles Part of being young is making mistakes.
Nikki ReedNikki Reed Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SophoclesSophocles It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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