Viola Davis Quotes - Page 3

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• It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

  Viola Davis

  Sexy, Who I Am, Embrace

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Stars, Thelma And Louise, Remakes

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

  Viola Davis

  People, Complicated, Colour

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• I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.

  Viola Davis

  Book, Black, Personal History

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Want, Able

  "Viola Davis Exclusive Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2011.

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Eye, Different, Unspoken Words

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• I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

  Viola Davis

  Husband, My Husband, Hanging Out

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Special, Chickens, Fried Chicken

  "Viola Davis as You’ve Never Seen Her Before: Leading Lady!" by Amy Wallace, www.nytimes.com. September 12, 2014.

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

  Viola Davis

  Inspiring, Hilarious, Hair

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• Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!

  Viola Davis

  Hollywood, Bread, Eating

  Source: www.eonline.com

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• I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what got me my start. I do everything I can to keep it alive since it made me feel like I had something to give to the world. I also support the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls run by a friend of mine that my niece attends. I'm committed to that because of its proven results. They have the highest math scores of any charter school in Rhode Island.

  Viola Davis

  Running, Educational, Niece

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

  Viola Davis

  Jobs, People, Expectations

  "Viola Davis Exclusive Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2011.

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• When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way. Uta Hagen said this, "In my life, I see myself as just this, you know, kind of flamboyant, kind of sexy middle-aged woman. And then I see myself onscreen, and I go 'Oh my God.'" And it's the same thing with me. I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't!

  Viola Davis

  Sexy, School, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• People are just not impressed by me at home.

  Viola Davis

  Home, People, Not Impressed

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.

  Viola Davis

  People, Actors, Elements

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

  Viola Davis

  Inspiration, Actors, Tyson

  Source: aalbc.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Successful, Opportunity, Voice

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Night, Differences

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.

  Viola Davis

  Trying, Impart

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

  Viola Davis

  Mother, Years, Perspective

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.

  Viola Davis

  Roles, Given, Downtrodden

  "Viola Davis as You’ve Never Seen Her Before: Leading Lady!" by Amy Wallace, www.nytimes.com. September 12, 2014.

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• That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.

  Viola Davis

  Mom, Careers, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

  Viola Davis

  Perfect, Fence, Shows

  Source: shadowandact.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Years, Unemployment, Broadway

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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