That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
VIOLA DAVISThat is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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