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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

Viola Davis

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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
St. Matthews
South Carolina
La Viola Davis
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You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene.
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Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.
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I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.
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If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.
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I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.
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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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Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
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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.
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That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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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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I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
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I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.
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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.
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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.
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