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!
VIOLA DAVISI want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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One 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.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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