I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
VIOLA DAVISThe only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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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!
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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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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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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.
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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