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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.

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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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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.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.
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I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.
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And classically not beautiful is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.
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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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I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.
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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.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.
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I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help' they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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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.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
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My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.
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