It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
VIOLA DAVISAnd this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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 guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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