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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.

Viola Davis

That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
VIOLA DAVIS

Mother Perspective Years
It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
VIOLA DAVIS

Chickens Fried Chicken Special
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Born Important Two
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
VIOLA DAVIS

Downtrodden Given Roles
One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
VIOLA DAVIS

Opportunity Successful Voice
You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVIS

Hesitant Who You Are
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
VIOLA DAVIS

Bigger Passion
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Expectations Jobs People
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
VIOLA DAVIS

People Thinking Want
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Different Eye Unspoken Words
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVIS

Daughter Heart Morning
Relationships change us and make us grow.
VIOLA DAVIS

Inspire Shapes Way
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS

Balance Self Thinking
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Believe People The End Of The Day
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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Awards Important Opportunity
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 think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.

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