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.
VIOLA DAVISI want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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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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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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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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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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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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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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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 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 am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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 think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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