The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
VIOLA DAVISI have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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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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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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