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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

Viola Davis

I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS

Balance Self Thinking
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Born Important Two
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
VIOLA DAVIS

Downtrodden Given Roles
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Impart Trying
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Womanhood
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Born Important Two
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
VIOLA DAVIS

People Thinking Want
It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
VIOLA DAVIS

Missing People Thinking
I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Opportunity School
As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
VIOLA DAVIS

Needs People Tiny
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
VIOLA DAVIS

Feelings Skins Stress
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Choices Desperate Situations Two
One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
VIOLA DAVIS

Opportunity Successful Voice
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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Hanging Out Husband My Husband
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician
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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Different Eye Unspoken Words

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

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