I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVISEvery artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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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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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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