I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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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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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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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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