If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see 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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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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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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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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