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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
La Viola Davis
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Roles

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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.
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To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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I think at the end of the day she [Rose from Fences] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative it's already there. The hope is there the playfulness is there it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.
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My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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 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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
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Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.
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Even when I go shopping, I don't shop as a woman. The only time I shop is when I need something, and I'm in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I have no energy to look at 50 million gowns and styles and make sketches and think about heels. I'm not girly in that way. I'm relying on the stylist to do 99 percent of the work.
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