I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
VIOLA DAVISSelf-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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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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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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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I’ve been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you’re comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone’s going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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