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 DAVISI 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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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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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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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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 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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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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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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