Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVISI have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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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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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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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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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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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