More Quotes by 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.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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.
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.
