When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVISEach role has its own different challenges.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 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.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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 want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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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 think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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