I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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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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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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.
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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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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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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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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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![Viola Davis Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/im-a-sitting-duck-no-seriously-i-mean-i-wish-i-cou.jpg)