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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.

Viola Davis

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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Fabulous Looks Want
Each role has its own different challenges.
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Acting Character Self
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Feelings Skins Stress
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
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Beautiful Fancy Ugly
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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Giving People Wall
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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Artist Feelings Struggle
[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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Careers Mom The End Of The Day
I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Embrace Sexy Who I Am
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Womanhood
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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Creativity Real Real Life
All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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Grows
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
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Downtrodden Given Roles
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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People People In Your Life Praying
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.
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Expectations Jobs People

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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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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