[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
VIOLA DAVISI’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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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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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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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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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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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