I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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