I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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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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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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 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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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