More Quotes by Viola Davis
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
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.
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.
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
