I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
VIOLA DAVISI am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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.
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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 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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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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