At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
VIOLA DAVISTyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
More Viola Davis Quotes
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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 am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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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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