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.
VIOLA DAVISKnowing 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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 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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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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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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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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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