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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.

Viola Davis

I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
VIOLA DAVIS

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

Womanhood
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
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVIS

Helping Ordinary People
It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
VIOLA DAVIS

Missing People Thinking
That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
VIOLA DAVIS

Different Eye Unspoken Words
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
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
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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
VIOLA DAVIS

Embrace Sexy Who I Am
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 can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hesitant Who You Are
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’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
VIOLA DAVIS

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

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