I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
VIOLA DAVISWomanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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 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.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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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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Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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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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