That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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 think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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’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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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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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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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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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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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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