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It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated. — Viola Davis

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. — Viola Davis

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. — Viola Davis

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself. — Viola Davis

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too. — Viola Davis

Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett. — Rutina Wesley

I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity. — Viola Davis

I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging. — Viola Davis

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it. — Viola Davis

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor. — Viola Davis

I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain. — Viola Davis

I don't want anyone putting any limits on me. — Viola Davis

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman. — Viola Davis

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent — Viola Davis

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. — Viola Davis

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?" — Viola Davis

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always. — Viola Davis

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form. — Viola Davis

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway ... I've seen the unemployment line a lot. — Viola Davis

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. — Viola Davis

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do. — Viola Davis

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work. — Viola Davis

I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world. — Viola Davis

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. — Viola Davis

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am — Viola Davis

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public. — Viola Davis

Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon, — Viola Davis

Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones. — Viola Davis

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked. — Viola Davis

Relationships change us and make us grow. — Viola Davis

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick. — Viola Davis

Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no! — Viola Davis

And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script. — Viola Davis

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish, — Viola Davis

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers. — Viola Davis

Mr Davis was a middle class tremble of a man worried about an unseemly display and his Jerry Springer moment — Saira Viola

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom. — Viola Davis

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us. — Viola Davis

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. — Viola Davis

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

My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate. — Viola Davis

People are just not impressed by me at home. — Viola Davis

They say the two most important days in a persons life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born. — Viola Davis

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it. — Viola Davis

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive. — Viola Davis

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous. — Viola Davis

You can't be hesitant about who you are. — Viola Davis

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. — Viola Davis

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there. — Viola Davis

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity. — Viola Davis

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing. — Viola Davis