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More Quotes by Viola Davis
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.
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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.
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
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.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
