If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVISI think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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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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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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