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.
VIOLA DAVISI’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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 “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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