It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
VIOLA DAVISAnd 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.
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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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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 pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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