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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.
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
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.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.