Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVISDo 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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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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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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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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