I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVISRelationships change us and make us grow.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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[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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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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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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 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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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