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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.

Viola Davis

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVIS

Helping Ordinary People
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
VIOLA DAVIS

Destiny Dreams Please
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS

Balance Self Thinking
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
VIOLA DAVIS

Choices Desperate Situations Two
It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
VIOLA DAVIS

Chickens Fried Chicken Special
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Creativity Real Real Life
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Born Important Two
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mother Perspective Years
In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
VIOLA DAVIS

Art Differences Night
Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
VIOLA DAVIS

Frustration Hair Rose
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
VIOLA DAVIS

Fence Perfect Shows
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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
VIOLA DAVIS

Impart Trying
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bigger Passion
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Heal Thinking
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
VIOLA DAVIS

Dream Mind Thinking
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
VIOLA DAVIS

Color Opportunity Winning

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