I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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 glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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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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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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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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