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.
VIOLA DAVISI think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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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 needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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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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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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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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