I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
VIOLA DAVISWhen you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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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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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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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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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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