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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. 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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More Quotes by Viola Davis
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.
Each role has its own different challenges.
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
