I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
VIOLA DAVISThey say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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 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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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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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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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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 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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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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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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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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I 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.
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