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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

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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mother Perspective Years
I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
VIOLA DAVIS

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

Desperate Situations Mother 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’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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
VIOLA DAVIS

Broadway Unemployment Years
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’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 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
Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
VIOLA DAVIS

Daughter Knowing Order
I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
VIOLA DAVIS

Embrace Sexy Who I Am
In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
VIOLA DAVIS

Art Differences Night
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVIS

Helping Ordinary People
I 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 DAVIS

Challenges Different Roles

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