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.
VIOLA DAVISI want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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 am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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 don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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