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More Quotes by Viola Davis
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
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.
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
Relationships change us and make us grow.
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.
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.
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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.
