You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVISWe as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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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 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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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