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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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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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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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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 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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