And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVISWhen your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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 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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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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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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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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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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