Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the 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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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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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’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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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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