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More Quotes by Viola Davis
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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.
I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
