I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVISSometimes 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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 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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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.
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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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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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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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