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.
VIOLA DAVISI needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
More Viola Davis Quotes
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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