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• But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.

  Viola Davis

  Rose, Everyday, News

  Source: shadowandact.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Sexy, Quirky, Different

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

  Viola Davis

  Mask, Glam

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I also tried to leave myself alone enough to be surprised by the news. That's when it had its potency. If I approach everything with joy and hope and love, which is what we all do. Every day we get up we're hoping that today is going to be the day that's going to get you over the hump. I tried to do that as much as I could. So then when all the news happens you see what she is made out of.

  Viola Davis

  Joy, And Love, News

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.

  Viola Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Vacation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like you indeed are good enough before you even get to the work, you can't ask for anything more than that.

  Viola Davis

  Giving, Directors, Like You

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.

  Viola Davis

  Balls, Fence, Scene

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.

  Viola Davis

  Laughing, Twenties, Twenty Somethings

  Source: shadowandact.com

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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

  People, Black, Narrative

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Recognition has brought me more work, because your name suddenly comes to mind when some directors are trying to cast a character. And my stage work has specifically enabled people to have faith that I can handle a role, even when it's not specifically written for an African-American. So, I'd have to say that recognition brings work. A successful movie brings more work, and that been the biggest blessing.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Successful, Blessing

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Drama, Commitment

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.

  Viola Davis

  Eye, Vanity, Focus

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Strong Women, Thinking, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh my God this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life." And then the next moment it's "This is the most beautiful and extraordinary human being, and I'm going to stick with it because I love them more than anyone else." That monologue to me is the universal thing, especially for women because I feel like that's the big thing with women.

  Viola Davis

  Beautiful, Sorry, Mistake

  Source: shadowandact.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Awards, Wings

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

  Viola Davis

  Emotional, People, Might

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

  Viola Davis

  Teacher, School, Dysfunction

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Challenges, Scene

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Hate, Play, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

  Viola Davis

  Teacher, Directors

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.

  Viola Davis

  Who I Am

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.

  Viola Davis

  Spiritual, Book, Hero

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

  Viola Davis

  Kids, Eye, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, Doe, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• [Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.

  Viola Davis

  Perfect, Email, Vow

  Source: www.elle.com

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