More Quotes by Viola Davis
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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.
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.
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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. 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.
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
