You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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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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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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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 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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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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 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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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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