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.
VIOLA DAVISIn 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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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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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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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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 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 love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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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 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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