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Viola Davis

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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Remakes Stars Thelma And Louise
I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
VIOLA DAVIS

Actors Deals Miserable
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
VIOLA DAVIS

Educational Niece Running
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ems Girl Looks
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
VIOLA DAVIS

Dream Mind Thinking
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVIS

Fabulous Looks Want
People are just not impressed by me at home.
VIOLA DAVIS

Capacity To Love Hate Humanity
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ends The End Of The Day World
As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
VIOLA DAVIS

Needs People Tiny
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Womanhood
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bigger Passion
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
VIOLA DAVIS

Feelings Skins Stress
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
VIOLA DAVIS

Badass Color Opportunity
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
VIOLA DAVIS

People Thinking Want
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Feelings Struggle
Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
VIOLA DAVIS

Frustration Hair Rose

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