Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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