They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
VIOLA DAVISEach role has its own different challenges.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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