Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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Knowing 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.
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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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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 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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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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 can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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