Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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 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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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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 am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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 don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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