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Viola Davis

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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Awards Important Opportunity
Each role has its own different challenges.
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Acting Character Self
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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Actors Deals Miserable
Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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Age Escaping Writing
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People Thinking Want
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Balance Self Thinking
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.
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Black Book Personal History
And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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Ifs Opportunity Play
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Badass Color Opportunity
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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Artist Mixtures Together
[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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Careers Mom The End Of The Day
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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Born Important Two
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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Remakes Stars Thelma And Louise
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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Ends The End Of The Day World
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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Home Not Impressed People
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Desperate Situations Mother Two
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Womanhood
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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Giving People Wall
People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Capacity To Love Hate Humanity
And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Artist Politician
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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People People In Your Life Praying
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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Dream Mind Thinking
It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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Missing People Thinking
Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Inspire Shapes Way
I’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
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Actors Elements People
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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Fabulous Looks Want
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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Expectations Jobs People

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