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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!

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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
St. Matthews
South Carolina
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Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.
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I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.
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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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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.
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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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I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.
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