It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
VIOLA DAVISSometimes 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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 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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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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.
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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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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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