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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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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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 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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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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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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