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.
VIOLA DAVISI would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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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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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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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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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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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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