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

Viola Davis

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

Desperate Situations Mother Two
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Remakes Stars Thelma And Louise
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
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Feelings Struggle
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Long Numbers Queens
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
VIOLA DAVIS

Colour Complicated People
I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
VIOLA DAVIS

Expectations Jobs People
I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hair Hilarious Inspiring
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
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
[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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Careers Mom The End Of The Day
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
VIOLA DAVIS

Choices Desperate Situations Two
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Opportunity Successful Voice
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVIS

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

Badass Color Opportunity
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
VIOLA DAVIS

Dream Mind Thinking
People are just not impressed by me at home.
VIOLA DAVIS

Capacity To Love Hate Humanity
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
VIOLA DAVIS

Destiny Dreams Please
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Awards Important Opportunity
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bigger Passion
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
Each role has its own different challenges.
VIOLA DAVIS

Acting Character Self
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
VIOLA DAVIS

Feelings Skins Stress
I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
VIOLA DAVIS

Home Not Impressed People
I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
VIOLA DAVIS

Actors Ego Vanity
Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
VIOLA DAVIS

Dose Good Health Healthy

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