Viola Davis Quotes

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• I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
• When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
• It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
• They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
• Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive…
• 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…
• I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what…
• 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…
• I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
• 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,…
• 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…
• We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
• Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones.
• 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…
• Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the…
• I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman…
• Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future,…
• It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard…
• I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for…
• In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never…

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