Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.
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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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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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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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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 love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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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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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 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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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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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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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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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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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.
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