I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
VIOLA DAVISI think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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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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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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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