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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.

Viola Davis

You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hesitant Who You Are
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ems Girl Looks
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Desperate Situations Mother Two
Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
VIOLA DAVIS

Frustration Hair Rose
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Home Not Impressed People
Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
VIOLA DAVIS

Age Escaping Writing
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Art Differences Night
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bread Eating Hollywood
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Born Important Two
Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS

Remakes Stars Thelma And Louise
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Beautiful Fancy Ugly
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVIS

Daughter Heart Morning
That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mother Perspective Years
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Believe Sex Thinking
I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
VIOLA DAVIS

Embrace Sexy Who I Am

I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.

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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.

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