I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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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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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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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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![Viola Davis Quote - I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/im-a-sitting-duck-no-seriously-i-mean-i-wish-i-cou.jpg)
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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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