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.
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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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 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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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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’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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