Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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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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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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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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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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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 am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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