Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
VIOLA DAVISSometimes 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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’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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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