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 DAVISI love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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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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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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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 really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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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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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.
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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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