Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
VIOLA DAVISIt feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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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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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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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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’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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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