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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

Viola Davis

And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician
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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Dream Mind Thinking
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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Fabulous Looks Want
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Night Up All Night Worry
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Badass Color Opportunity
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Artist Feelings Struggle
I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
VIOLA DAVIS

Broadway Unemployment Years
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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People People In Your Life Praying
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Bread Eating Hollywood
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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Born Important Two
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS

Balance Self Thinking
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bigger Passion
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVIS

Helping Ordinary People
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Desperate Situations Mother Two
I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Ideas Opportunity School
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Opportunity Successful Voice

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

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