When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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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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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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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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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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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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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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