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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.
Viola Davis
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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
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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 job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.
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You have to understand being an actress, and being an African American actress of a certain hue, I think that you have to be bold with your choices. Even when you're not bold with your choices, have people see it as bold.
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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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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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You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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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.
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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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I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in Fences] I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end.
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I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.
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It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.
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And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, You change the school, you change the community. I couldn't wrap my mind around that.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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 think that's something that people feel that I do really well I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?
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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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