When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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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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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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