Relationships change us and make us grow.
VIOLA DAVISIf the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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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 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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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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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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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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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 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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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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