If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
VIOLA DAVISIt feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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 talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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 just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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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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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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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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