I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
VIOLA DAVISYou can’t be hesitant about who you are.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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 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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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 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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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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 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 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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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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 am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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