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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

Viola Davis

I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS

Balance Self Thinking
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hanging Out Husband My Husband
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician
Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
VIOLA DAVIS

Dose Good Health Healthy
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hero Powerful Thinking
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Desperate Situations Mother Two
Each role has its own different challenges.
VIOLA DAVIS

Acting Character Self
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
VIOLA DAVIS

People People In Your Life Praying
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bread Eating Hollywood
I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
VIOLA DAVIS

Embrace Sexy Who I Am
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVIS

Helping Ordinary People
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Home Not Impressed People
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 DAVIS

Fence Perfect Shows
You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hesitant Who You Are
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Needs People Tiny
And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ifs Opportunity Play

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