Viola Davis Quotes - Page 4

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• I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

  Viola Davis

  Actors, Miserable, Deals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• You see all the young girls, and they're so skinny. I actually don't even twirl anymore. They say, "Twirl, let us see your back." I just tell 'em, "I do not twirl. If you want to see my back, when I walk away, you can take a picture of it. I'm not twirling." You know, I twirled once, and I almost fell. It looks ridiculous. So I said I'm not twirling anymore.

  Viola Davis

  Girl, Looks, Ems

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.

  Viola Davis

  Dream, Play, Numbers

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

  Viola Davis

  Who I Am, Roles, Actors

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line.

  Viola Davis

  Beautiful, Flower, Green Fields

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

  Viola Davis

  Jobs, Numbers, Actors

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• I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging.

  Viola Davis

  Aging, Facial, Products

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, World, Alcoholics

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

  Viola Davis

  Scripts, Jacuzzi

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• I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

  Viola Davis

  Jobs, Done, Television

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

  Viola Davis

  Acting, Actors, Acting Out

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.

  Viola Davis

  Husband, Book, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

  Viola Davis

  Successful, Racism, People

  "Shondaland roundtable: Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Kerry Washington go unfiltered". Interview with Melissa Maerz, ew.com. September 21, 2015.

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• August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, Looks, Honest

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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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!

  Viola Davis

  Stars, Niece, Eye

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• That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.

  Viola Davis

  Choices, Buttons, Actors

  Source: www.etonline.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Mean, Ducks, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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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. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

  Viola Davis

  Powerful, Hero, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

  Viola Davis

  Mom, Believe, Order

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• But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.

  Viola Davis

  Rose, Everyday, News

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• We're in crisis mode as black actresses. It's not only in the sheer number of roles that are offered and that are out there, but the quality of the roles. The quality - and therein lies the problem. We're in deprivation mode because me, Alfre and Phylicia, we're in the same category. Whereas if you take a Caucasian actress, you have the one who are the teens, in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s - they're all different. There are roles for each of them. But you only have two or three categories for black actresses.

  Viola Davis

  Lying, Two, Numbers

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Uptown, Mars, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

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