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.
VIOLA DAVISI have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous 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 don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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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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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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