They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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