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What it meant for me to win the Emmy is I found it. It's not just the award. It's what it's going to mean to young girls - young brown girls, especially. When they saw a physical manifestation of a dream, I felt like I had fulfilled a purpose.Collection: Viola
We didn't have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn't have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we'd go to school smelling.Collection: Viola
Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.Collection: Viola
I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race.Collection: Viola
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.Collection: Viola
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.Collection: Viola
Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.Collection: Viola
Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!Collection: Viola
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.Collection: Viola
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?Collection: Viola
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.Collection: Viola
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.Collection: Viola
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.Collection: Viola
To the predators... Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend... I say to you, 'You can choose your sin but you don't get to choose the consequences.' To the victims... I see you. I believe you... and I'm listening.Collection: Viola
If I have to be at work at five A.M., I will get up at three and work out. I run. I do weights. I'm very toned. I'm like every other woman. I'd love to be 10 pounds or 20 pounds lighter. If I'm not, I'm OK with that, too. I'm good as long as I'm healthy.Collection: Viola
I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.Collection: Viola
I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.Collection: Viola
I feel at home in Shondaland. I feel a lot of things at Shondaland, but one of the things I feel that I haven't felt before is at home. I feel accepted for who I am and acknowledged for who I am. I feel like my ideas are embraced.Collection: Viola
I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.Collection: Viola
I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.Collection: Viola
If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.Collection: Viola
I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.Collection: Viola
You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.Collection: Viola
When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.Collection: Viola
Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.Collection: Viola
I live a fantastic life. Why should I complain about awards?Collection: Viola
I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.Collection: Viola
It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.Collection: Viola
It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.Collection: Viola
Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.Collection: Viola
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.Collection: Viola
My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.Collection: Viola
When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.Collection: Viola
Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.Collection: Viola
I have had issues in the past with the characters and the limitations of the characters and the structure of the narratives given to me as a woman of color.Collection: Viola
Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.Collection: Viola
You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.Collection: Viola
You have to dare to make a choice that may be considered unorthodox in a role, but when you're working as if there are tons of people watching you, that's not necessarily a good thing.Collection: Viola
You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.Collection: Viola
My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could get.Collection: Viola
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.Collection: Viola
My grandmother's house was a one room shack.Collection: Viola
I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater - Broadway, Off Broadway - film supporting roles, that I'm just excited to be a part of the conversation.Collection: Viola
I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.Collection: Viola
I feel the same way about Shondaland I feel about Africa and Greece. I feel pretty in both places. Men look at me like I'm a novelty, and women think I'm just cool. I feel absolutely at home immediately. I'm not altering myself to fit in. I'm walking in just as I am. And there are open arms stretched out to greet me.Collection: Viola
That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am.Collection: Viola
I look back on those early days in the theater like the beginning of a love affair, when you're totally in love with the work, and that's all there is.Collection: Viola
I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count them as I was running.Collection: Viola
So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.Collection: Viola
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at McDonald's.Collection: Viola