They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
VIOLA DAVISAny actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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.
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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.
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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[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.
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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.
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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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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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