Viola Davis

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. ↗

— Viola Davis

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Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does. ↗

— Viola Davis

#beautiful #beautiful thing #does #future #generation

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable. ↗

— Viola Davis

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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there. ↗

— Viola Davis

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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? ↗

— Viola Davis

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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character. ↗

— Viola Davis

#anything #been #character #constant #criticism

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it. ↗

— Viola Davis

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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. ↗

— Viola Davis

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That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it. ↗

— Viola Davis

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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

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