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 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.
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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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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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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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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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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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