When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVISI talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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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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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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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’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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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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 have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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