Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
VIOLA DAVISWhen your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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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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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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