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I 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.

Viola Davis

That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mother Perspective Years
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

Ems Girl Looks
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Beautiful Fancy Ugly
It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
VIOLA DAVIS

Chickens Fried Chicken Special
I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
VIOLA DAVIS

Believe People The End Of The Day
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Needs People Tiny
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
VIOLA DAVIS

Choices Desperate Situations Two
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
VIOLA DAVIS

Educational Niece Running
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
VIOLA DAVIS

Colour Complicated People
I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mistake Opportunity Thinking
I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
VIOLA DAVIS

Actors Deals Miserable
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Mixtures Together
I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hair Hilarious Inspiring
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
VIOLA DAVIS

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

Artist Politician
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Desperate Situations Mother Two

I 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.

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I 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.

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