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.
VIOLA DAVISI 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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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