And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVISI talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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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 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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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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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