I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVISWomanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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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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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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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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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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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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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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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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