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I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
Viola Davis
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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
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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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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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I get so excited when my daughter says something new, which she is doing every day. I can leave the house for a few hours, come back and meet a totally different person. That's very exciting to me.
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The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help' they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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 can be bigger than anything else.
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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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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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