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!
VIOLA DAVISI can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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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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