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 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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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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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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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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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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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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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