I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVISYou cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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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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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 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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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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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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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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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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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