I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
VIOLA DAVISThey say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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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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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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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 love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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