You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVISWhen you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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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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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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