They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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.
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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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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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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 don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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