You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
VIOLA DAVISWomanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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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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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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