I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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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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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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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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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