I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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.
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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.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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 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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You can’t be hesitant about who 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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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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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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.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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