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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.

Viola Davis

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
VIOLA DAVIS

Gifts And Talents Levels Want
One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
VIOLA DAVIS

Opportunity Successful Voice
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
VIOLA DAVIS

Awards Important Opportunity
Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
VIOLA DAVIS

Frustration Hair Rose
Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
VIOLA DAVIS

School Sexy Thinking
That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mother Perspective Years
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
VIOLA DAVIS

Limits Want
It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
VIOLA DAVIS

Chickens Fried Chicken Special
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
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
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
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Womanhood
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVIS

Daughter Heart Morning
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
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVIS

Fabulous Looks Want

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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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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