Viola Davis Quotes - Page 2

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• But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

  Viola Davis

  Daughter, Morning, Heart

  Source: www.elle.com

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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. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

  Viola Davis

  Wall, People, Giving

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Powerful, Hero, Thinking

  "Viola Davis ‘The Help’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

  Viola Davis

  Dream, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

  Viola Davis

  Badass, Opportunity, Color

  "The 10 Best Emmy Moments for Women Last Night" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. September 21, 2015.

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• I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

  Viola Davis

  Gifts And Talents, Levels, Want

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• I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.

  Viola Davis

  Trying, Impart

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

  Viola Davis

  Deficit

  FaceBook post by Viola Davis from Sep 14, 2014

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• We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

  Viola Davis

  Artist, Politician

  Tavis Smiley show on PBS, www.elle.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

  Viola Davis

  Womanhood

  "#AskHerMore: 11 Empowering Messages From Inspiring Women On The Red Carpet At The Oscars" by Natasha Hinde, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. February 24, 2015.

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• 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.

  Viola Davis

  Believe, People, The End Of The Day

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• Each role has its own different challenges.

  Viola Davis

  Challenges, Different, Roles

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

  Viola Davis

  Writing, Escaping, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

  Viola Davis

  Vanity, Ego, Actors

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.

  Viola Davis

  Eye, Different, Unspoken Words

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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.

  Viola Davis

  Mother, Two, Desperate Situations

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

  Viola Davis

  Opportunity, Awards, Important

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, Self, Balance

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

  Viola Davis

  Opportunity, Play, Ifs

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I felt that there could be some anger. There could be some frustration that he has the tendency to take over the room, but I wanted all of those things to show in the grays of her hair and the fact that her hips are much wider than they probably were when she met him. I wanted it to show in the fact that her hair is not done up all the time. I wanted it to be a part of that every day that wasn't in your face. Because then for me, that's overacting. To me, that's not "being." I wanted Rose [in "Fences"] to be many things.

  Viola Davis

  Frustration, Hair, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

  Viola Davis

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

  Viola Davis

  Mother, Years, Perspective

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

  Viola Davis

  Husband, My Husband, Hanging Out

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• And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

  Viola Davis

  People, Ordinary, Helping

  FaceBook post by Viola Davis from Jul 24, 2014

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