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 DAVISI am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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.
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Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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