I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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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 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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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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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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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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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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 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 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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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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