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.
VIOLA DAVISThat’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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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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.
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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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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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