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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.

Viola Davis

One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
VIOLA DAVIS

Opportunity Successful Voice
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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Believe Sex Thinking
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Downtrodden Given Roles
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Feelings Skins Stress
Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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Age Escaping Writing
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Daughter Knowing Order
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Womanhood
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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Different Eye Unspoken Words
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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Destiny Dreams Please
Relationships change us and make us grow.
VIOLA DAVIS

Inspire Shapes Way
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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Artist Mixtures Together
People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Capacity To Love Hate Humanity
[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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Careers Mom The End Of The Day
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People Thinking Want
I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Gifts And Talents Levels Want
Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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Deficit

Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.

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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.

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