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.
VIOLA DAVISCreativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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.
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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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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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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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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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