Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVISI’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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 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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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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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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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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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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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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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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.
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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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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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