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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.

Viola Davis

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
VIOLA DAVIS

Children Hair Mother
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
VIOLA DAVIS

Colour Complicated People
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
VIOLA DAVIS

Womanhood
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
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hero Powerful Thinking
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
VIOLA DAVIS

Downtrodden Given Roles
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Grows
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Desperate Situations Mother Two
I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
VIOLA DAVIS

Actors Ego Vanity
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
VIOLA DAVIS

Educational Niece Running
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
VIOLA DAVIS

People People In Your Life Praying
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
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Actors Elements People
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Deficit
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 don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
VIOLA DAVIS

Night Up All Night Worry

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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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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