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.
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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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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.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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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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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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.
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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 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 think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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