I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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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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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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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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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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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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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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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