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.
VIOLA DAVISI just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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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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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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 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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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