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 DAVISWomanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
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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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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 want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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