More Quotes by Viola Davis
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.
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.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
Each role has its own different challenges.
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.
Relationships change us and make us grow.
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.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
