I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
VIOLA DAVISAnything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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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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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 have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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 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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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
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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.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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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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