I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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[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.
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