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 DAVISThey 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.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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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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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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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’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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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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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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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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