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.
VIOLA DAVISSometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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 don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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