You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVISI would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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 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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
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