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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

Viola Davis

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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hanging Out Husband My Husband
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Desperate Situations Mother Two
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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Frustration Hair Rose
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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Heal Thinking
I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Ideas Opportunity School
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Different Eye Unspoken Words
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Balance Self Thinking
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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Limits Want
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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Born Important Two
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People Thinking Want
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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Dream Mind Thinking
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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Deficit
I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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Broadway Unemployment Years
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Womanhood
Each role has its own different challenges.
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Acting Character Self
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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Challenges Different Roles

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