At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
VIOLA DAVISOne 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.
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’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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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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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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And 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.
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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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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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