You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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 to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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 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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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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 would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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