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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.

Viola Davis

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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Born Important Two
Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Inspire Shapes Way
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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Awards Important Opportunity
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 DAVIS

Born Important Two
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Bigger Passion
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Color Opportunity Winning
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Opportunity Successful Voice
I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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Long Numbers Queens
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Balance Self Thinking
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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Helping Ordinary People
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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Black Book Personal History
It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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Chickens Fried Chicken Special
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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Believe People The End Of The Day
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Daughter Heart Morning
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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Hanging Out Husband My Husband
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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Frustration Hair Rose
[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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Careers Mom The End Of The Day
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Children Hair Mother
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Badass Color Opportunity
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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Home Not Impressed People
I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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Hair Hilarious Inspiring
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mother Perspective Years
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Downtrodden Given Roles
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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Dream Mind Thinking
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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Creativity Real Real Life
Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
VIOLA DAVIS

Deficit
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
VIOLA DAVIS

Feelings Skins Stress

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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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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