And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
VIOLA DAVISAll you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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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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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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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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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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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.
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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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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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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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I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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