I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
VIOLA DAVISI talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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