All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
VIOLA DAVISEvery artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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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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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.
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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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.
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