Each role has its own different challenges.
VIOLA DAVISOrdinary 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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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