And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
VIOLA DAVISWhen your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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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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.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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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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