I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
VIOLA DAVISYour 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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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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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic 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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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