I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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