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.
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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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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 think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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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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