I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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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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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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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 have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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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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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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 this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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