I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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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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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 think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Tyler 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!
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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 love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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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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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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