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.
VIOLA DAVIS
It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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 think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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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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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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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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