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.
VIOLA DAVIS
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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 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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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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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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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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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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