Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
VIOLA DAVISCreativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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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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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’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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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