People are just not impressed by me at home.
VIOLA DAVISYou cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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.
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