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 DAVISRelationships change us and make us grow.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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.
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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.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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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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