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.
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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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