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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.

Viola Davis

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People Thinking Want
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Balance Self Thinking
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Desperate Situations Mother Two
I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
VIOLA DAVIS

Broadway Unemployment Years
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Beautiful Fancy Ugly
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Artist Politician
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Feelings Skins Stress
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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Daughter Knowing Order
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Actors Ego Vanity
Each role has its own different challenges.
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Acting Character Self
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
VIOLA DAVIS

Destiny Dreams Please
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
VIOLA DAVIS

Giving People Wall
Relationships change us and make us grow.
VIOLA DAVIS

Inspire Shapes Way
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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Believe Sex Thinking
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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Black Book Personal History
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!
VIOLA DAVIS

School Sexy Thinking

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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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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