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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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You can't be hesitant about who you are.
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It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
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As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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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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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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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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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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When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red carpet. I like to take off all my makeup, put on a t-shirt, be completely unassuming and just do stuff with my husband and my daughter.
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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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I guess they say, Necessity is the mother of invention because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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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 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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There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.
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Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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