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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.

Viola Davis

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
VIOLA DAVIS

People Thinking Want
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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Grows
I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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Mistake Opportunity Thinking
I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Opportunity School
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Deficit
Sometimes 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.
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Awards Important Opportunity
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
VIOLA DAVIS

Feelings Skins Stress
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Educational Niece Running
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Desperate Situations Mother Two
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Beautiful Fancy Ugly
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Needs People Tiny
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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
VIOLA DAVIS

Impart Trying
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Born Important Two
[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
VIOLA DAVIS

Careers Mom The End Of The Day
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Colour Complicated People
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Feelings Struggle

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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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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