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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
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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
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South Carolina
La Viola Davis
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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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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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 themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
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It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good.
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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.
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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 really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.
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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.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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