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.
VIOLA DAVISThey 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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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.
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