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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”

Viola Davis

And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
VIOLA DAVIS

Womanhood
[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.
VIOLA DAVIS

Careers Mom The End Of The Day
Each role has its own different challenges.
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Acting Character Self
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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Ems Girl Looks
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
Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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Frustration Hair Rose
It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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Chickens Fried Chicken Special
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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Heal Thinking
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
VIOLA DAVIS

Color Opportunity Winning
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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Hero Powerful Thinking
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Daughter Heart Morning
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Balance Self Thinking
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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Needs People Tiny
I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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Hair Hilarious Inspiring
People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Capacity To Love Hate Humanity
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
VIOLA DAVIS

Giving People Wall

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”

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