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 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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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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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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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