Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
VIOLA DAVISCreativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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They say the two most important days in a person’s life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
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