I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
VIOLA DAVISAt 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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.
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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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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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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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