
fearthereaper: celebrity-gossipp:
Meryl Streep is congratulated by Viola Davis before accepting the Oscar for best actress at 84th Academy Awards.
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viola.

meryl.

Viola Davis
She’s a genuinely great actress and I’m glad she’s finally getting some much deserved attention/acclaim. It’s too bad it’s not for a better film.
Truth.
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.
Viola Davis (via christophernolans
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Viola Davis arrives at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz)