I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
VIOLA DAVISWomanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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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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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Your 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.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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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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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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