I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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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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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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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 would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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