More Quotes by Viola Davis
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
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.
Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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.
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys 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.
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.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
