People are just not impressed by me at home.
VIOLA DAVISI would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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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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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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 what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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 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 that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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