Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVISYour internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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