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 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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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 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.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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 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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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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.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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’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.
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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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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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