I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVISActor 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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 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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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