Relationships change us and make us grow.
VIOLA DAVIS
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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 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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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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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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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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