When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
VIOLA DAVIS
I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of 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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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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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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 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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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 am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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.
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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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