I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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.
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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.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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They say the two most important days in a person’s life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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