Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
VIOLA DAVISAnd “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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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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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 can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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’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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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.
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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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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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