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Viola Davis arrives at 84th Annual Academy Awards

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Viola Davis with husband Julius Tennon at the 43rd Annual NAACP Image Awards

 ViolaDavis, husband Julius Tennon, and Viola Davis’s boobs.

I was eight years old when I decided to be an actor. And I am just so privileged to be gazing on the beautiful face of the woman who inspired me that beautiful day, and that’s Cicely Tyson.

And when I woke up and realized how difficult it was to be an actor, and how the rejection was so high, then another beautiful face graced the screen when I was in college, and that was Meryl, who just …always inspires me.

But there’s so many people involved in The Help, in lieu of mentioning all them, I just have to say that, what is there but a dream? You can’t trade in your dream for another dream. I am so proud to be an actor, and I thank the Screen Actors Guild for this award.

And I have a special, special note to the kids in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in Segue Institute of Learning in Central Falls, Rhode Island: to dream big and dream fierce.

Thank you very much.

Hollywood is a business. And I don’t fault it for that. It’s a business about money and advertising, and we don’t translate in the foreign market. And a lot of people want to indict Hollywood for that, but I don’t think it’s just an indictment on Hollywood; it may be more of an indictment on people who go to the theatre to put their money down – to see what? You see a film with a predominantly black cast and you don’t see it as inclusive, but you see a film with a predominantly white cast and it is. Why?

I want to be a pioneer; I want to take on the responsibility and the weight of something bigger than myself, which is more diverse storylines, especially for African-American actresses. But I can only do what I do. I certainly can’t change Hollywood’s complete perception of black actresses – I need help.

Interviewer: Are you guys pals?
Viola: You know we’re e-pals.
Tilda: We’re e-pals.
Interviewer: What’s an e-pal?
Tilda: It’s a pal by e.
Viola: Yeah, we exchange emails. I also exchanged an email with Meryl Streep today. I’m not name dropping or anything.
Tilda: …You’re e-name dropping.

The Help’s Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in W Magazine’s Best Performances 2012 issue.

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