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.
VIOLA DAVISWhen you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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 this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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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 I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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