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.
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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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 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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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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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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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 why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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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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 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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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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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 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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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