Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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 don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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At 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.
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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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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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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 think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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