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More Quotes by Viola Davis
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
Each role has its own different challenges.
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.
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
