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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

Viola Davis

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
VIOLA DAVIS

Badass Color Opportunity
It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
VIOLA DAVIS

Chickens Fried Chicken Special
I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hanging Out Husband My Husband
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
VIOLA DAVIS

Giving People Wall
I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Opportunity School
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Heal Thinking
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Needs People Tiny
It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
VIOLA DAVIS

Missing People Thinking
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
VIOLA DAVIS

Choices Desperate Situations Two
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
VIOLA DAVIS

Educational Niece Running
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 DAVIS

Night Up All Night Worry
I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
VIOLA DAVIS

Actors Elements People
You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hesitant Who You Are
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Desperate Situations Mother Two
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Believe People The End Of The Day
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician

That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

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