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.
VIOLA DAVISIf the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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