If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous 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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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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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 that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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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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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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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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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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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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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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