I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
VIOLA DAVISOrdinary 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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 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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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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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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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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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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