Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
VIOLA DAVISWhen you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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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That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing 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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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 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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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