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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.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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.
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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.
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
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.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
