I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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[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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That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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