I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
VIOLA DAVISI think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
VIOLA DAVISThey say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
VIOLA DAVISWhen your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVISI think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
VIOLA DAVISAnd 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.
VIOLA DAVISCreativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
VIOLA DAVISI talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
VIOLA DAVISYou cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
VIOLA DAVISCicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
VIOLA DAVISTyler 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!
VIOLA DAVISEven when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
VIOLA DAVISEach role has its own different challenges.
VIOLA DAVISSelf-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVISWe grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
VIOLA DAVISIf the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVISWe as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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