The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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.
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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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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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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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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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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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