Viola Davis Quotes
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
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I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?
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I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.
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[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.
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I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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Now, a lot of people may be surprised at that, but I'm very dedicated to working out. Usually, it's running. It clears my mind, totally. I get on the treadmill, which I just bought, and I run on that for about 40-45 minutes.
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I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.
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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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There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so you really don't care if you win. You really don't. You're going there, you're getting dressed up. And then you get to the awards show, and you sit down. You walk the red carpet. Everybody loves you. It's great. You sit down, and all of a sudden your category comes up, and you get nervous. And it's a complicated emotion, because it's not like you absolutely want to win, but then you don't want to lose.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.
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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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I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.