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 DAVISI guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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.
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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 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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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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 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 listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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