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 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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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