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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 Davis

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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Expectations Jobs People
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS

Balance Self Thinking
In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
VIOLA DAVIS

Art Differences Night
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 DAVIS

Night Up All Night Worry
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Educational Niece Running
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bread Eating Hollywood
Each role has its own different challenges.
VIOLA DAVIS

Acting Character Self
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVIS

Fabulous Looks Want
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 DAVIS

Ideas Womanhood
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
VIOLA DAVIS

Giving People Wall
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Creativity Real Real Life
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVIS

Desperate Situations Mother Two
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Impart Trying
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Remakes Stars Thelma And Louise
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

Artist Mixtures Together
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
VIOLA DAVIS

Downtrodden Given Roles

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