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.
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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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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