[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.
VIOLA DAVISI really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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 have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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