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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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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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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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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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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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 guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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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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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 have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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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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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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[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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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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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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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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