Relationships change us and make us grow.
VIOLA DAVISDo 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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