You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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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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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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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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