If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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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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