I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
VIOLA DAVISSelf-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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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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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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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