If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see 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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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’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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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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 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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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’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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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