I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
VIOLA DAVISLet 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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’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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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