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.
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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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.
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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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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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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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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