Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVISThat’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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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 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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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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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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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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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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