I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVISI don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 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 listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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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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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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