More Quotes by Viola Davis
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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.
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.
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.
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
