I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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 cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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 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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Let 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.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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