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 DAVISActing, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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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.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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!
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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