Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
VIOLA DAVISThey 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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 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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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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