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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.
Viola Davis
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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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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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I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.
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But along with all of that it was, Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today? I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from Fences] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
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It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.
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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.
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You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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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.
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I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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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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[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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