Best quotes by Viola Davis on Life

Checkout quotes by Viola Davis on Life

• ‟ I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.

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• ‟ I tell my daughter every morning, 'Now, what are the two most important parts of you?' And she says, 'My head and my heart.' Because that's what I've learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.

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• ‟ What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

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• ‟ The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

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• ‟ I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

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• ‟ I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

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• ‟ What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.

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• ‟ You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

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• ‟ My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could get.

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• ‟ I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.

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• ‟ Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.

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• ‟ Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.

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• ‟ In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

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