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.
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 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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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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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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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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 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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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 have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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