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Viola Davis

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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Heal Thinking
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Artist Politician
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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Born Important Two
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Downtrodden Given Roles
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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Dream Mind Thinking
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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Mother Perspective Years
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Artist Feelings Struggle
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Children Hair Mother
I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Embrace Sexy Who I Am
In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
VIOLA DAVIS

Art Differences Night
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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Actors Elements People
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Impart Trying
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Choices Desperate Situations Two
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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Believe People The End Of The Day
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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Opportunity Successful Voice
I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Home Not Impressed People

People are just not impressed by me at home.

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