I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
VIOLA DAVIS[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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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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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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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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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